[lbo-talk] The Death of Classical Music (da capo, con brio)

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Wed Apr 4 10:16:16 PDT 2007


Michael J. Smith wrote


>
>Bach -- at least the complicated Bach -- is more complicated
>than anything, but there are plenty of composers we call "classical"
>whose stuff is structurally very simple. Take Vivaldi (please!).
>
Now, now. Bach loved Vivaldi's music; he transposed a lot of Vivaldi's music to the Organ and Vivaldi's influence on his own music was quite salutary -- as the influence of Italian upon German music always was. Lightened things up a bit.

Joanna



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