Arturo Llamas Orenday <[log in to unmask]> writes: >And you can forget the Bach-Handel influence on thte Great Mass K. 427. Yes - but once again the prime influence on Mozart here is Handel, and not Bach. The essence of the point, re. Kundera's fable as to the supreme importance of the Bach renaissance, is to differentiate between the Twin Peaks of Baroque in terms of influence and style, and avoid conflating them into the "Handel-Bach Inc." of popular musical legend! As for the "lifting" of Handel by Mozart into his Requiem, I'm not too sure. We should perhaps be wary of substituting our own 20th c. sense of Musical Copyright for the baroque-rococo perception of using the Lingua Franca as a common heritage. Though Mozart's use of techniques such as fugato is certainly *very* Handelian in effect (c.f. "Quam olim Abrahae" etx.) thematic musical tags weren't really anybody's personal property. Christopher Webber, Blackheath, London, UK http://www.zarzuela.net "ZARZUELA!" The Spanish Music Site