Word: pleyel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piece suffers from an identity crisis, although the crisis involves the composer and not any aspect of the music itself, which remains a brilliant showcase of the woodwinds and horns. Musicologists have yet to determine whether the theme was actually written by Haydn or by his student Ignaz Pleyel. Regardless of the nature of his piece's thematic roots, Brahms effectively unearthed a simple, hymn-like melody and molded it into an intricately layered set of variations. Even if the talents of the oboe, clarinet, flute and bassoon players did receive the spotlight in most of the theme's airy...
...Chapel Series--the Mannheim Quartet performs Pleyel, Rossini and Viotti. In the MIT Chapel at noon on Thursday...