Word: rellstab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when the composer and his product is far more vital. There is already a dangerous tendency today to lavish all on performers and to regard new composers as intruders in a well established game. It is significant that, without exception, every one of the greater music critics--such as Rellstab, Hoffman, Heine, Schumann, Hanslick and G. B. Shaw--owes that greatness almost exclusively to what he wrote about the composer and his music, not about the performance. Be this as it may, when the CRIMSON reviewer referred to Beethoven's "middle period" (Oct. 5), he was making an astute comment...
| 1 |