Gustav Holst in Royal College of Music - the 1890's
from Letter from Holst to Vaughan Williams, 1903, page 15:
In one of Parry's lectures he played all the sketches Beethoven made for the 'Eroica' Funeral March (first theme). Sketch no 1 was not at all bad. No 3 was beautiful. No 6 was stupid. No 9 was bloody. The final one was a return to no 3. The moral of which is that if you spoil good stuff by working at it you must spoil the spoilation by more work.
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Letter from Holst to Vaughan Williams, 1903. In Imogen Holst and Ursula Vaughan Williams (ed.), Heirs and rebels (London, ), p. 15. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1406802060963 accessed: 1 September, 2024
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Reflections on Parry's performances of Beethoven 'Eroica' sketches
written by Beethoven |
performed by Hubert Parry |
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Date/Time | the 1890's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by isobel.1111 on Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:21:01 +0100
Approved on Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:21:02 +0000