"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > > His later work is loud, largely due to his deafness.  Check out his fifth
> > > symphony (a very well known work) or the 9th.
> >
> > Or his late string quartets (~Op. 127-135), some of the last music he wrote, not
> > to mention some of the best.
>
> Think Beethoven is loud?

Didn't mean to imply loud, only worth checking out for a good cross-section of
Beethoven.

> How can you convey passion without dynamics?

Glenn Gould seems to pull this off somehow.  Full of passion, but not much for
dynamics.

> Ever heard Wagner?  But yes, not too many people
> enjoyed his "savage" sounds, like Chopin once put it.

Or, as Mark Twain put it, "Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is
better than it sounds."

 - Ricky

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