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Old Scores and New Readings is subtitled Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians and is by John F. Runciman. The contents list, among others, William Byrde and his Mass, Our Last Great Musician (Henry Purcell, 1658-95), Bach and the Matthew Passion and the John, Handel, and Haydn and his Creation.
The piece headed Our Last Great Musician (Henry Purcell, 1658-95) says Purcell was not the founder but the splendid close of a school, and that school one of the very greatest the world has seen. The text says Wagner has been described as Weber, as Weber might have become, but that the truth is that he was Weber's younger brother, who took Weber's art and used it to nobler ends. The text says the suite (Op. 55) and the symphony (Op. 36) are full of novel and dazzling effects.
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- John F. Runciman
- Pages
- 102
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