Klarinet Archive - Posting 000913.txt from 1998/07

From: Edinger/Gilman <wde1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] great composers
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 01:05:02 -0400

Dan Leeson wrote:

"Ed Lacy suggests that Mahler is the greatest composer. I agree. He
was very tall."

Actually, Mahler, at about 5'2", was perhaps the shortest of recent
composers (Alban Berg, at 6'6" or so, was probably the tallest).

Mahler ardently believed that Mozart was the greatest composer -
supposedly his last utterance before succumbing to heart failure was
"Mozart..". So if Ed Lacy thinks Mahler was the greatest (a feeling I
have some sympathy with), and Mahler thought Mozart the greatest - oh,
never mind.

Bill Edinger

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