Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!dep From: dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne E. Perry) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: composers popular in their day Message-ID: <2508@allegra.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 16:21:34 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.2508 Posted: Mon Jun 4 16:21:34 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 04:31:26 EDT References: <295@ames-lm.UUCP>, <924@unm-cvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 17 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