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« on: July 14, 2011, 02:17:01 pm »



This week I listened to the first string quartette of Imogen von Holst, which appeared in 1946. It seemed to be a set of not quite variations, if I may express the matter thus, and well worth further hearings.

What the eminent Mr. Lebrecht does not know about modern music is not worth knowing, so I looked her up in his Book, and found a significant psychological observation: "Her first string quartette," writes Mr. Lebrecht, "is serious and lyrical, though entirely unsentimental, suggesting a strength of purpose that she subjugated willingly to male masters."

In a nutshell what!

Several composer fathers have had composer sons; not so many composer fathers have had composer daughters. Bach the master had at least three composer sons, and a good many daughters, but I have never heard that any of the latter turned into composeresses. Does any one know?
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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2011, 08:11:42 am »

What the eminent Mr. Lebrecht does not know about modern music is not worth knowing
Were that to be true (which fortunately it is anything but), a most appallingly enormous amount of information would be "not worth knowing"!

Several composer fathers have had composer sons; not so many composer fathers have had composer daughters. Bach the master had at least three composer sons, and a good many daughters, but I have never heard that any of the latter turned into composeresses. Does any one know?
Whilst I cannot immediately think of such cases, what of composer mothers having composer daughters, such as Maconchy and Lefanu, for example? I(ncidentally, the term "composeress" may once have possessed a passing whiff of aumsement to some (in the particular context to which http://www.webrarian.co.uk/reed/emily_butter.html refers), but it was surely never intended to be lifted from this very much of its time piece and employed elsewhere as you do now as though it had a legitimacy independent of that particular creation of long ago?
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