Klarinet Archive - Posting 000872.txt from 1998/07

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Re: Mahler
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:39:52 -0400

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Ed Lacy says he was short. But he was the greatest short and thin
> composer. Who was the greatest tall and fat composer??

I have always admired the attitude of Giocomo Rossini. He is reported to
have wieghed over 300 pounds. In fact, after he wrote the opera "William
Tell," he lived another quarter-century or so and never wrote any more
music to speak of. Instead, he became a gourmet chef.

When he did compose, he is said to have done so lying in bed. As a
confirmation that he was one of the laziest people ever to live on the
face of the earth, his friends reported that if he was composing in his
usual recumbent position and dropped a page of music on the floor, he
would re-write the page rather than get out of bed to pick it up.

I guess the only way to have a more relaxed attitude than that would be to
be dead!

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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