Klarinet Archive - Posting 000128.txt from 2003/09

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Hell_Larsen?= <blarsen@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Missed all the Fun
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:48:45 -0400

Bear Woodson wrote:
> Most people accept J.S. Bach, Hindemith and
> Mozart as geniuses on the word of experts, since
> they don't have the expertise to know WHY they
> are geniuses for themselves. If you had met them
> in their lifetimes, and they said that they had
> written a certain sonata, fugue or concerto, would
> you call them a phony?

Actually, I believe that J.S. Bach, Hindesmith and Mozart was more
occupied with creating music, and less with shooting their mouths off
about their own genius.

Bjørn

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