Steve Schwartz writes:

>Haydn's really nothing that shows us anything different than a lot of his
>contemporaries
>in their keyboard writing.

Except that Haydn did it so much better than his contemporaries.  In my
book, his superb architecture and improvisatory/rhetorical style easily
places him among the great composers for the keyboard.

>Scriabin derives from Chopin.

And Bach derives from Sweelinck, Scheidemann, and Buxtehude.  Actually,
the music of all composers, particularly in their early compositional
years, borrows from earlier models.  Also, I never heard any music from
Chopin without a tonal center.

Don Satz
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