BEETHOVEN AND BACH
Sir.-May I comment on the letters from correspondents about Bach and Beethoven. To me, the "aural mathematics" is right, but is it not more a case of, maybe, two near equally great composers with different outlooks-one an idealist and one a realist? To me, with the idealism there is too much purity of form and expression. Let me have realism with those blacks and whites that nature so obviously intended man to have-man in all his moods aq we know him, or life in all its moods ag we know it, or nature unrefined in alf hers-an infinity of moods from thd depths to the exultant. For me Beets, hoven-not the "purist" YT. S: Bach.
"ONE OPINION"
(Taupaki).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 454, 5 March 1948, Page 5
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121BEETHOVEN AND BACH New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 454, 5 March 1948, Page 5
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