On Apr 4, 2007, at 1:16 PM, joanna wrote:
> 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.
In any case, how long would it take someone to learn the violin well enough to play an old warhorse like The Four Seasons? A lot longer than it took Sid Vicious to master his instrument.
Doug