Klarinet Archive - Posting 000085.txt from 2008/08

From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] poulenc sonata
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:57:02 -0400

at this moment there is quite a discussion going on, with Anthony Pay as
central figure, more or less about what is the "true" Poulenc sonata.

Let me tell you: a "true" sonata doesn't exist.

Not only with the above mentioned one, not with Beethoventh' sixth, not with
my "the rabbi laughs".

As a composer you often think that a specific note in a specific place is
the best one you can write. But afterwards you reread the compo, and
consider a different one better, because of the melodic line, because of a
specific harmonic, or whatever.

And you forget about it, till you see or hear the work again, and think the
original note, dynamics or whatever was better. But once published you don't
always go into he trouble of recorrecting what has been published (the
fanfare music composer Leon Vliex once told me so).

Thus anyone claiming Beethoven to be a genius is right and everyone claiming
Rien Stein is a genius is wrong.

Ciao

Rien

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