Klarinet Archive - Posting 001257.txt from 2000/05

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Mozart Quintet
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 18:41:09 -0400

Dan is quite right to take a stern view
of this wildly eccentric and "tongue in cheek"
view, expressed by such an influential
figure as McNaught, even if some of the mechanics
of McNaught's description are nearly correct.

Who was McNaught? - Grove V (1954)
William McNaught (London 1883-1953 London)
English music critic, author and editor,
son of William Gray McNaught (1849-1918)
[father studied at the RAM, choral conductor,
editor at Novellos from 1892, editor Musical Times
1909-18] William McNaught Junior went to
Worcester College, Oxford. [Possibly influenced by Hadow],
was assistant editor of the Musical Times under his father
and successor, as editor, to Harvey Grace in 1944.
(It goes on unbelievably) His book "Modern Music and
Musicians" is a brilliant critical exposition, admirably free
of prejudice of any sort, of various tendencies
and techniques in 20th century music. As a writer of
programme notes and gramophone reviews
McNaught was unsurpassed.
HCC = H C Colles (1879-1943)

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