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"Dull, almost, when you’re reading the notes." …Although I've found some of Beethoven's much more complex to follow. I reckon you're right about the 7th though
by hilbert42 4y ago
"Dull, almost, when you’re reading the notes."
…Although I've found some of Beethoven's much more complex to follow. I reckon you're right about the 7th though, it remains one of my favorite and exciting of his works. Still, I know some who disagree citing it repetitive and boring (why they've arrived at this view beats me, must be their brains are wired very differently to mine).
On the matter of notes on paper and how they sound in actual performance, I reckon nothing betters Mozart. On reading the scores of some of his piano concertos some passages look so simple and trite that one wouldn't bother with them but upon performance they open out into a whole world of wonderful, complex emotions.
- Aidevah 4y agoThere's this wonderful passage in in Shaw's letters when he expressed the same opinion: >By all means put Mozart in his place; but don't be led into thinking that it was not a very high place. And don't read his scores; sing and hear them. If you look at his blessed old dominant sevenths,they will never be anything but dominant sevenths to you. If you listen to them only, you will sometimes find yourself going to the score to find what a strange chord it is you have heard, and being astonished and infuriated to find that it is as plain and platitudinous a seventh on paper as anything in "When Other Lips."