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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Alan Hovhaness posted by Bagsgroove on December 3, 2002 at 18:00:16:
Hovhaness "invented" his own style (much like Phillip Glass), and then reworked that basic "sound" hundreds of times. Composers of this type are "self-made men". Vivaldi, OTOH, was constrained by the stylistic limitations (social, musicological, instruments etc.) of his time. There is actually considerable variation, and a tremendous amount of great art and creativity, across the Vivaldi works. Although not as outright fecund as J.S. Bach, he should be considered along those lines. If these composers "broke ranks" with tradition they would never have been able to make a living, and would be unknown to us today. Stravinsky IS known today due to the very fact that he DID break ranks. He was an iconoclast -- and he knew it. That was the basis for his Vivaldi comment.
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