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From: dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne E. Perry)
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Subject: Re: composers popular in their day
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Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 16:21:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  4 16:21:34 1984
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that is why ... Haydn wrote so many symphonies, many of which ar not
extent [sic - extant] today.

Sorry to disappoint you but a goodly number are available in score form
(the Landon editions as well as the Haydn Society editions) as well as
recorded form (the Dorati series on London Treasury).  The goodly number
of them includes the accepted 104 plus a few extra.

It is not at all clear that the "new music for new music's sake" approach is
any less productive in terms of musical development than "new music for
art's [whoever he is] sake".  Haydn consistently broke new ground with each
new composition (or in some cases, set of compositions).

Perhaps "great art" is the con job of the 19th century and "abstract art"
is the con job of the 20th.

aurally yours - dep