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Re: Post-Truth

Author: cigleris
Date: 2016-11-24 13:52

Tony,

Firstly I owe you an apology. I was unaware that you had commented on the previous post regard the metronome markings within the Poulenc Sonata. You see I visit here rather infrequently nowadays and rarely post. I also realise that I posted like it was a statement. That wasn't my intention but rather to mention something that I had learned from another. My initial reaction was due to my perceived tone of the message but in hindsight I could have been less short but I maintain it wasn't a post-truth. I trust my student who is doing musicology, so she wouldn't have made this claim without a viable source.

I now know that this information told to me by my student is from the preface to the 2006 Chester edition of the Sonata. This is what she sent me:

"Poulenc completed the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano at Brive-Noizay late in the summer of 1962. The project had been occupying his thoughts for at least five years. He had drafted the slow movement as early as August 1959, but the demands of the Gloria, then in the final stages of composition, halted further progress. It was under these circumstances that Poulenc noted to R. Douglas Gibson of J. & W. Chester that the slow movement could published as an independant 'Andantino tristamente', were he never to complete the outer movements..."

You said:
"Your master's student should be learning intellectual discipline from you, not the other way around."

I agree with you on this but I'm also aware that one can learn anything from anyone.

Whether the above information from the preface is correct or not I was simply unaware of this.

Peter Cigleris

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