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From: carolo@tekig4.UUCP (Carol Ochsner)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Sibelius - tone poems
Message-ID: <258@tekig4.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 18:53:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 18:53:20 1985
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Reply-To: carolo@tekig4Ochsner.UUCP (Carol Ochsner)
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In article <336@gymble.UUCP> speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals) writes:
>In article <1239@teddy.UUCP> rdp@teddy.UUCP (Richard D. Pierce) writes:
>>
>> When I was studying Baroque organ, I expressed to my teacher my fondness
>> of Sibelius. His comment was that Sibelius is ok, as long as you like
>> music searching desperately for a theme.
>
>And I sauppose we could also talk about the music of Mahler...
>
>Music that has little or nothing to say, but spends hours doing it anyway.


Not to mention the master of this genre: Richard Wagner!