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- From: atems@igor.physics.wayne.edu (Dale Atems)
- Subject: Re: Bruckner (was: Re: Best finale)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.030821.10396@cs.wayne.edu>
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- Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- References: <1993Jan1.232207.14710@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:08:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.232207.14710@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mvalinis@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael J Valinis) writes:
- >OK! OK! I can't restrain myself any longer! I've been lurking here for a while
- >reading all the Bruckner adulation, and I just have to add myself to the list
- >of those who couldn't care less about Bruckner. Notice that I did not state
- >that I hate Bruckner. That would imply that his music had some strong effect
- >on me, which it doesn't. Bruckner moves me not at all. Personally, I have
- >better things to do with my life than listen to an overblown, interminable
- >meander through the dregs of romanticism. Give me one, just one, motet by
- >Desprez, and you are welcome to everything Bruckner ever poured onto paper.
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- To each his own, I guess. I'd just wonder if you've heard all of Bruckner's
- major works, or made up your mind after hearing a couple of the "popular"
- symphonies.
-
- >Back to the origin of this thread, best finales, would anyone else consider the
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- Okay, let me throw out one I don't think anyone has mentioned (surprisingly):
- Beethoven's Op. 131 string quartet.
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- Dale Atems
- Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- atems@igor.physics.wayne.edu
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