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- From: velde2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Francois Velde)
- Subject: Re: Ockeghem (was Re: Lost Masterpieces)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.142302.1844@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <1992Dec19.063407.25773@Princeton.EDU> <y1p2b+b@rpi.edu> <1992Dec20.064010.22971@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:23:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.064010.22971@Princeton.EDU> roger@astro.princeton.edu (Roger Lustig) writes:
- >In article <y1p2b+b@rpi.edu> mccomt@aix.rpi.edu (Todd Michel McComb) writes:
- >
- >>think of the ideas, the unpublished material, all totally lost. The fact
- >
- >True of every composer. Imagine the improvisations that Haydn or Chopin
- >didn't write down. Think of the 75% of Brahms' work he claimed to have
- >burned.
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- Should we regret those 75%? If, by miracle, we found them, should we publish
- them? There is no doubt we would, but Brahms would probably be spinning in
- his grave. Brahms was a perfectionnist: he only wanted his best output to
- appear, and he did not want to repeat himself. If he had nothing to say, he
- said nothing. Some creators want us to see only the best of themselves, the
- same way we might not like to be seen naked, or coming out of bed. The
- same problem arises with writers: when critical editions of works are published
- with all the first drafts, corrections, mistakes, typos and second thoughts
- published in notes or appendices. They satisfy our intense curiosity about
- the creative process, but often violate the creator's privacy. But then, as
- artists they do not belong to themselves, but to us cannibals :-)
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- Francois Velde
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