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Joseph Sowa wrote:
>BTW, at my Uncle's house I heard a pretty interesting work of Haydn's
>of which I never knew. It was an oratorio called, IIRC, The Seven Last
>Words of Christ. In the last movement, Haydn depicts the earthquake after
>Christ's death in musical terms--very accurate musical terms, which I've
>never heard in Mozart.
You may be right. Actually, I'm more familiar w/ the string quartet
version of the Seven last Words, which also end w/ a musical depiction
of the earthquake following Jesus' death. It's grand Haydn, of course,
but I prefer the slow movements that precede it.
If Haydn's earthquake trumps Mozart's failure ever to have written
a musical description of one, they're both trumped by Honegger and
Villa-Lobos, each of whom described very convincingly in musical form
the sound of a steam locomotive.
Walter Meyer
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