tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post7587060773205439750..comments2024-03-28T12:59:05.739-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: "Inspirations"Lisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-38207629457889958692008-01-27T10:43:00.000-08:002008-01-27T10:43:00.000-08:00Oh, thank you for that pointer. Yes, we would have...Oh, thank you for that pointer. Yes, we would have a very different view of music history if Germans hadn't invented it as a professional field.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-35316377030240075072008-01-26T17:08:00.000-08:002008-01-26T17:08:00.000-08:00It's an unexamined truism that Haydn "invented" th...It's an unexamined truism that Haydn "invented" the string quartet. Check out Boccherini's Op. 2 (written in 1761), which precede Haydn's invention of the string quartet by some years. But Haydn had the entire German musicological/music historical establishment working for him, while Boccherini was "marginal".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-87337992006592155542008-01-12T22:58:00.000-08:002008-01-12T22:58:00.000-08:00SF Performances told me that it's based on somethi...SF Performances told me that it's based on something Robert Greenberg had said, and what he said was actually "implicitly or explicitly," which would have been better.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-5660930609336275272008-01-12T21:49:00.000-08:002008-01-12T21:49:00.000-08:00Yeah, I'm with you on this. "May have inspired the...Yeah, I'm with you on this. "May have inspired them, directly or indirectly" is so vague as to be meaningless. They "may have bought them a prune Danish, directly or indirectly" too, and what of it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com