If you've never heard Artur Nikisch's recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, please do. Though it was made in 1914 and sounds like it, Nikisch played it with fast tempi and a reduced orchestra, anticipating the period-instrument approach to Beethoven that's become common today.
Horenstein started at a very young age so he was around Nikisch, Furtwangler, Alban Berg, Richard Strauss and others but he was therefore still around in the early 70s to talk about them.
@@macksawyer6221 No which makes it even more interesting that a composer with so much dramatic content was considered not very personable. What is your point?
The maestro is very tolerant of these academic and presumptuous questions. "Style awareness" is one such moment. If a great composer is a "genius" and "ahead of their time", then style awareness becomes moot, as the style of the day is already out of date. "Style awareness" is illogical. Fortunately being creative was assigned, by God, to creative people, not academics. What makes an academic? An academic is someone who, without any talent, pretends to talk with a pretentious authority on any given topic so as to raise themselves up in social status. They attempt to compensate their lack of ingenuity with high marks. They can also be spotted attempting to lure students to "go swimming" at the local pool, and coming over for dinner to "let their hair down a little". Of course students who refuse get bad marks, but at least these few students go on to be the true artists and, thanks to God, not an academic. Beware the academic.
These are really fascinating memories of a great musician, *by* a great musician.
If you've never heard Artur Nikisch's recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, please do. Though it was made in 1914 and sounds like it, Nikisch played it with fast tempi and a reduced orchestra, anticipating the period-instrument approach to Beethoven that's become common today.
fascinating-thanks
Horenstein started at a very young age so he was around Nikisch, Furtwangler, Alban Berg, Richard Strauss and others but he was therefore still around in the early 70s to talk about them.
He said that Alban Berg was a very kind man, and that Richard Strauss was made of ICE.
@@maestroclassico5801So what? Was his music made of ice?
@@macksawyer6221 No which makes it even more interesting that a composer with so much dramatic content was considered not very personable. What is your point?
What a shame Horenstein didn't hear Mahler to compare him to Nikisch.
The maestro is very tolerant of these academic and presumptuous questions. "Style awareness" is one such moment. If a great composer is a "genius" and "ahead of their time", then style awareness becomes moot, as the style of the day is already out of date. "Style awareness" is illogical. Fortunately being creative was assigned, by God, to creative people, not academics. What makes an academic? An academic is someone who, without any talent, pretends to talk with a pretentious authority on any given topic so as to raise themselves up in social status. They attempt to compensate their lack of ingenuity with high marks. They can also be spotted attempting to lure students to "go swimming" at the local pool, and coming over for dinner to "let their hair down a little". Of course students who refuse get bad marks, but at least these few students go on to be the true artists and, thanks to God, not an academic. Beware the academic.
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