Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Tuesday, April 08, 2003
If, as Ty Burr says, art from before 1970 is totally kaput, why is someone expected to pay $4.6 million at auction for Beethoven's final revision of his Ninth Symphony?
And according to this story, Beethoven was so exercised in his revisions (as well he had to be) he wrote a note to a copyist reading (in German; Beethoven didn't write music in English), "You damned fool!" Do you suppose that copyist is in Ty Burr's bloodline?
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