Don Satz on P-B; >I'm glad to freshen up the day, but I didn't think I was accusing P-B of >anything, just noting that after listening to a disc of his symphonies, I >couldn't remember any of the melodies. But, as I already noted, I'm not >finished with the man. There is something about his music that draws me >in; I just haven't figured out what it is. And this bothers me some for >there sure isn't anything particularly complicated or innovative about his >music. In fact, although both P-B and Borresen are in the late romantic >time period, I find their music more romantic than late. Zemlinsky they >aren't. No, P-B is following in the footsteps of Grieg. But by Swedish (and Scandinavian) standards, his harmonies are pretty advanced. A sort of impressionistic, national romantic. He also allows himself a certain amount of exotism in some of the movements, writing in 5/8 (second Symphony) or 10/8 (third Symhony). As a composer, he is working with the contrast between "North" and "South" (Apollo and Dionysos respectively, to put in his own words). Mikael [log in to unmask]