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Posted by james irsay More sensible, and in a better spirit, would have been for the doctor to say "all are welcome to download and cherish my words of sick, prissy, anti-sexual wisdom (yes, I am applying my comment to the Chopin article, which I found!!), but if you choose to quote from it or publish it in any form, please ask first.".. or words to that effect. His warning seemed a bit severe, but after reading his Chopin article, the severity comes as no shock from this sick puppy. By the way, I considered commenting in detail on his Chopin article, but it would require more memory than my computer has ... Kalkbrenner a great composer!!! Have you ever read through his works? I have... I own many in the original French editions. Far worse than Thalberg, or even Herz! His Method is not bad, though, even if you don't want to rest your arms on a contraption called the "Guide-Mains", which he sold with his publisher Pleyel ... well, it was good enough for Stamaty I suppose. I own the second edition of K's Methode, and the introduction is priceless (where K writes of discovering the Guide-Mains by sawing off part of an arm-chair). OK, he must have been a fine pianist, but COMPOSER? And Peter Katin a great Chopin interpreter?? As for the "deep mystery" of Chopin's early works bearing late opus numbers... how about: they were published after his death... DUHHH! And by the way, it was FIELD who called CHOPIN a "sickroom talent". Chopin was a great admirer of Field... in his youth, he bragged that his playing was compared to Field's. Chopin NEVER "pretended to invent the Nocturne", just as Beethoven never pretended to invent the Sonata. And on and on and on... not worth it for a mind like that. Anyway, I'm starting to sound a bit nasty myself here, so I'll close. Peace... James
on September 5, 2006, 7:21 pm, in reply to "Re: david wright article on dittersdorf"
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Paul, I understood everything you said the first time I read it. My only reason for commenting was due to the doctor's proscription against simply "downloading" and "storing" into a "retrieval system", by which we take to mean "computer". We cannot help but include "private use" within these limitations.
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