October 25, 2007
Elegance and wit above all other qualities
I wish the audio quality on the clips was a little better, but this Slate article on the differences between Mozart and Haydn (the author is an unabashed Mozart partisan) was worth reading anyway. I haven't listened to a lot of Haydn, but I've heard enough to know that the differences are indeed quite recognizable.
It doesn't have much to do with that article, but comparisons between composers often remind me of a part in Gravity's Rainbow where one character says, "A person feels good listening to Rossini. All you feel like listening to
Beethoven is going out and invading Poland."
So true!
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