Re: Why do you like Mozart's music?


"Simon Roberts" <sdsr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Do
> you (or anyone else) find much, if any, correlation between how good a
> performance is and the extent to which the interpreter(s) is/are
> "steeped"?
>
Sometimes. Unfortunately for Mr. Schaffer's argument, I think that this
'steepedness' does not require birth-through-juvenile submersion in the
particular physical/social environment. In the case of the Germanic
composers before Schoenberg that environment doesn't even remotely exist
to be submerged in.

There is also, given the context of your question, the (sometimes
realized) possibility that a performance with no hint of 'steepedness'
can be very good.

bl


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