Klarinet Archive - Posting 000880.txt from 1998/07

From: Grant Green <gdgreen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Mahler & other fat composers
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:47:23 -0400

At 05:39 PM 7/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
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Peter Schickele, in one of his routines, remarks that D. Scarlatti stopped
writing hand crossings in his harpsichord works later in life, when he
became too fat to cross his hands at the keyboard. PDQ Bach, on the other
hand, grew so fat that he couldn't reach the keyboard with both hands, and
had to develop a way of playing "sidesaddle"... Sorry, no idea how tall
either of them was... ;-)

Grant

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