Christopher Webber wrote: >To broaden out the discussion of Schmidt, not by the way a "forgotten >Hungarian" but a native of Pressburg (now Bratislava, capital of >Slovakia)... I appreciate Christopher Webber's thoughtful and revealing mini-essay (http://tinyurl.com/6dlwbx) about Schmidt, but wonder about his challenge to the composer's Hungarian-ness. Never mind that *Pozsony* (renamed Bratislava only in 1919, thanks to your Mr. Wilson's disastrous nation-building/rearranging efforts) was the *capital* of the Kingdom of Hungary for some 250 years... just listen to the "Notre Dame" Intermezzo (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qIjZwvI0r2g) - it has some of the most impassioned ("giccses"/kitschy) phony-Hunky music since the days of that other questionably Hungarian composer, F. Liszt...:) Janos Gereben www.sfcv.org [log in to unmask] *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html