Quality v Quantity

The dizcussion in the other thread gave me an idea.
I’m thinking of splitting this question in twain

  • Compared to their overall output, which cumposers have the most pieces in general rep?
  • Again compared to their overall output, which cumposer has the highest top quality works?

I think the answers would pretty much be the same?

Apart from Medtner which would be high in the latter but low in the former due to his lower recognition.

Re first question: if you measure it as % of actual output, almost certainly those who wrote prolifically will score lowly (otoh I’m thinking Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Liszt) - do they really have more than 50 works in ‘canonical’ rep? Whereas Beethoven obviously has the bulk of the sonatas plus his concerti and some chamber music.

  1. Chopin
  2. Bach

Frivolously, Paul de Schlozer :laughing:

Hah :wink:

Schulz-Evler

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He wrote quite a few things actually! Including an octave study that looks fascinating

Schlozer wrote 2 wikid etz then said let’s leave it at that and end on a high :sunglasses:

Yeah thing is that, when I was around at least, no one had actually seen those! Our team was in touch with virtually every significant library in Europe and several in Russia and the US as well, but we only ever found the Strauss, the Octave, and I think a set of variations.

Not really. Of the 600 odd Zart pieces, only maybe 100 are general rep. But quite a lot is not on the same level as his best stuff.

Someone like Duparc would be the later - he only published something like 13 songs which are bog standard French rep.
Pozz Mahler and Beethoven would fit both.

DA slutz forever Blue Balls daboob is

Unimaginative

No…? Maybe a little hackneyed though. It wears on me that whenever pianists decide to play a Strauss paraphrase they land on this one 80% of the time. I think my favourites are Friedman’s Frühlingstimmen and the ones by Rosenthal.

My faves are the 4 Godowsky mofos by about several million light-years (if that shit was not freemasonic science fiction jew trash :tm: )

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4 Godowsky mofos?

Dun forget da LH alone parazheeyat

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I clearly need to check back on my Godowsky

Yes Kunstlerleben and Fledermaurs are among the best there is in my book too btw. They’re a bit thick though, I think Friedman’s and Rosenthal’s have just the right delicacy and elegance to them - and I also haven’t heard them as much.

Hah! I had completely forgotten this existed. I have never heard it before, but way back in another millennium I did play it through myself.

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Well… I’m all for Kunst/Fled, but I’m more suspicious about the value of this thing :owl:

I adore Godowsky…

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Plus he looks hot