David Love wrote: > > >Are we to believe that Beethoven was oblivious to the character of this > > key? > > I don't imagine that Beethoven wasn't aware of tuning. But that's what was > available. Do you imagine if Beethoven could play his pieces on a modern > concert grand that he would prefer the pianos of his day? > > David Love Another one of these point / counterpoints that keeps coming round... interesting enough as it were. However, I would like to point out that the actual question is both unanswerable, and that each possible answer is equally likely. Given humankind's' ofte times conservative nature it is quite possible indeed that the big B would have thought the modern piano and refined ET to represent musical puke. Or he might be go absolutely crazy with joy at these new wondrous musical tools... we simply will never know and its useless to attempt to conjecture his response to this hypothetical question and even more useless to use that conjected response as part of an argumentation about temperament choice relative to music of any given period. And in any case... its way off the point of the discussion any ways. The fact is that Beethoven WAS influenced by the musicality of his time... Given that fact it is also nearly unimaginable that he could have not consciously exploited the available tonal palettes. jmofon -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
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