MAJOR WORKS
Sir-Surely the commentator who wrote the note "Major Works" in the January 18 issue is a trifle over-con-scientious. To condemn the "1812" Overture as "flamboyant; _@ vulgar trifle" is to offend a large audience of musi¢e lovers who undoubtedly enjoyed the performance, as I did. Your commentator asks "What is a Major Work?" then drops the subject. Perhaps this will help him. In a letter to Nadezhda Filaretovna, Tchaikovski expressed his habitually frank opinion of the overture, which, he said, he had composed very rapidly. "The overture will be very loud and noisy, but I wrote it with little warmth of love; therefore it will probably have small artistic worth." I think we can take it from this that the "1812" Overture is not a major work. |
HUGH
WRIGHT
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 347, 15 February 1946, Page 25
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