Ron Chaplin [[[log in to unmask]]] wrote: >Copland refers to Miaskovsky as a young >composer who has already written 27 symphonies. This was the first I had >heard of him. Do any list members have information about him? He was professor at Moscows conservatory for a big bunch of years. He was very popular in his time, what for the quick gives an idea of that his music didn't belong to the avant-garde. Now he is almost forgotten although quality in the symphonies. People forget and forget and forget... >Jannequin, a Renaissance composer, who wrote vocal music based on the >songs of birds. Never heard of, but so I am not a renaissance nut either, but this sounds indeed interesting. Mats Norrman [log in to unmask]