Comments on: What’s past is never really past http://www.sequenza21.com/forum/2009/09/114/ Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:27:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: chris sahar http://www.sequenza21.com/forum/2009/09/114/comment-page-1/#comment-22851 chris sahar Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:08:07 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/forum/?p=114#comment-22851 Haydn is the one composer I look up to and respect the most. Especially as one who has come to composition late and is filling in deficiencies, I look to Haydn (oh and Ives) as models. TO get out from the shadow of Bach (CPE, et al ) and th 18th century Italian and French masters and do what he did under his circumstances - well, I think there is no match in at least the past several hundred years. Listeners and composers take for granted Haydn's innovations - partly because he pulled them off so well. Finally he gave so much to Mozart and Beethoven to perfect heir compositional abilities. Haydn is the one composer I look up to and respect the most. Especially as one who has come to composition late and is filling in deficiencies, I look to Haydn (oh and Ives) as models.

TO get out from the shadow of Bach (CPE, et al ) and th 18th century Italian and French masters and do what he did under his circumstances – well, I think there is no match in at least the past several hundred years.

Listeners and composers take for granted Haydn’s innovations – partly because he pulled them off so well.

Finally he gave so much to Mozart and Beethoven to perfect heir compositional abilities.

]]> By: Matthew http://www.sequenza21.com/forum/2009/09/114/comment-page-1/#comment-22849 Matthew Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:02:14 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/forum/?p=114#comment-22849 Great post! Being trained as a trombonist, I've never given Haydn much thought, but clearly I need to do so. I work in academia in a small town, and I often take heart from Bach's letter to the Leipzig town council, "Essay for a Well-Appointed Church Music." We have it so much easier than Bach and Haydn just by living in this century... but Bach also had some of the same problems we do--lack of funding foremost among them. And yet... Great post! Being trained as a trombonist, I’ve never given Haydn much thought, but clearly I need to do so. I work in academia in a small town, and I often take heart from Bach’s letter to the Leipzig town council, “Essay for a Well-Appointed Church Music.” We have it so much easier than Bach and Haydn just by living in this century… but Bach also had some of the same problems we do–lack of funding foremost among them. And yet…

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