NICOLAI MEDTNER
Sir,-The article on Medtner in The Listener of February 29 conveys a false impression of this composer when_ it states that "He had no sympathy with the moderns. His own musi¢ ‘always had great charm and lyricism ‘with no trace of the more pungent *modern tendencies." On the contrary, ‘after- studying his music over a long period, I have found that a good deal of it contains passages which are far ahead of his period in thought and which possess much of the cacophony usually acclaimed by and for the "moderns," in fact it is often deliberate. Particularly in the sonata Op, 30 and Op. 39 as well as in the Variation, Op...47 the dominant themes are almost a issonant. The concerto mentioned. being played by Colin Horsley also ‘contains a good deal of music distinguished mare by powerful discordance than, > er ism. F
M. T.
DIXON
(Christchurch). *
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 663, 21 March 1952, Page 5
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150NICOLAI MEDTNER New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 663, 21 March 1952, Page 5
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