tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post113834581056238443..comments2024-03-29T04:15:17.481-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: Eavesdropping on Our Knees: Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Theophilus Mozart, 1756 - 2006Charles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1159081434077907582006-09-24T02:03:00.000-05:002006-09-24T02:03:00.000-05:00Unfortunately you have been fooled as far as the a...Unfortunately you have been fooled as far as the alleged Mozart portrait on this page is concerned. It doesn't show the composer, but the Munich merchant Anton Steiner (1753-1813) (see: http://www.mozartgesellschaft.de/webEdition/site/dmg/html/acta_mozartiana/img/Beitrag_Bauer_Acta.pdf) To call Solomon's Mozart biography 'highly praised' is a slightly curious statement, given the fact that it wasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1159081579792788472006-09-24T02:06:00.000-05:002006-09-24T02:06:00.000-05:00Unfortunately you have been fooled as far as the a...Unfortunately you have been fooled as far as the alleged Mozart portrait on this page is concerned. It doesn't show the composer, but the Munich merchant Anton Steiner (1753-1813) (see: http://www.mozartgesellschaft.de/webEdition/site/dmg/html/acta_mozartiana/img/Beitrag_Bauer_Acta.pdf) To call Solomon's Mozart biography 'highly praised' is a slightly curious statement, given the fact that it wasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1138679810802740472006-01-30T22:56:00.000-05:002006-01-30T22:56:00.000-05:00CPE - more "gallant" or "mannerism" than "classica...CPE - more "gallant" or "mannerism" than "classical" - is good enough not to have endure having other musick chosen above him. but Led Zeppelin over Wagenseil? Yes, probably. :) I hope we have different brains... different brains with their collective experiences agreeing and disagreeing (all in one, when the situation is or the gods are sympathetic) is more fun than would be eternal agreement.jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1138590133820106862006-01-29T22:02:00.000-05:002006-01-29T22:02:00.000-05:00hm... led zeppelin (best in rock, i guess you me...hm... led zeppelin (best in rock, i guess you mean to say) over CPE Bach (average classical)? we must have different brains! (my brain loves and respects yours nevertheless)Sir Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953581535133000686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1138423214793086472006-01-27T23:40:00.000-05:002006-01-27T23:40:00.000-05:00well... if you know my predilections, my reactions...well... if you know my predilections, my reactions to Bach, certain Mozart... you will know that - although I <I>know</I> such values to be arbitrary - I <I>feel</I> strongly about the superiority of some art over other art. but as a genre I really don't think that any one musicke is superior to another... on average they are all pretty mediocre. what i may grant is that amidst the many valleys jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1138420209387136982006-01-27T22:50:00.000-05:002006-01-27T22:50:00.000-05:00sorry, this is a comment on your Reilly post from ...sorry, this is a comment on your Reilly post from 18.8.04. i post it here because i susect that posting it on 18.8.04 was useless -- i doubt you look that far back for comments. and i would like to hear your answer to the following. (hope you forgive me this impropriety)<BR/><BR/>"are all fruits indeed created equal? sure, strawberries and melons may be on the same plane; but the experience Sir Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953581535133000686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1138418814282730022006-01-27T22:26:00.000-05:002006-01-27T22:26:00.000-05:00"he worked within the formulas of harmonic develop..."he worked within the formulas of harmonic development and motivic usage that he received"<BR/><BR/>perhaps, yes, but WAM is an important innovator in music nevertheless: mozart in his haydn quartets, in the course of that wonderful exchange with haydn, and, of course along with haydn, made an important contribution to the creation and development of a new art form. his novel contributions to Sir Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953581535133000686noreply@blogger.com