>I think that to get the music >off the page, Mozart demands unbelievable attention to all >possible details and gestures as well as extreme precision and >even then the results are not inspiring. I just do not find it >great music. It's quite possible, I think (and know), to play >Bach or Beethoven (or Liszt) and if you play a note or two >notes wrong or even if you miss a whole measure, there is >still a chance to do something musically satisfying, it's not >per se ruined, but it would be in a Mozart piece. Two years >ago, there was a student here who came close to improvisation >in the middle of a Scriabin poem. Musically speaking, I didn't >find the result so bad at all. I found that quite interesting.
One interpretation of this observation could be that Mozart's music is the furthest from random while Scriabin's, of the options you cite, the closest. RY _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
