On Jan 30, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Arthur Ness wrote: > Surely examples in > Beethoven are the Battle Symphony, or as he himself admitted the > Amenda string quartet.
There's the famous story of someone telling Beethoven that everyone was playing his Septet, and Beethoven responding that he wished they'd burn it instead. > And what about the minuets Mozart wrote for a horse ballet? > Well-wrought? They're downright primitive.<sigh> Well, he had to consider the string-playing ability of the horses. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
