Comments on: Are We Really Missing Out? http://theomniscientmussel.com/2007/08/maybe-we-didnt-miss-out-after-all/ Classical Music & Culture Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:33:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Miss Mussel http://theomniscientmussel.com/2007/08/maybe-we-didnt-miss-out-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Miss Mussel Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:06:51 +0000 http://theomniscientmussel.com/?p=64#comment-73 But if we could have had just one more work, would we not also wish that we would have had two or three? Miss Mussel wishes desperately that Brahms would have written a horn concerto but that is not what happened. The Horn Trio is a completely fantastic work, loved by horn players the world over. Should we rather pine for something that wasn't to be or take joy in what we have? But if we could have had just one more work, would we not also wish that we would have had two or three?

Miss Mussel wishes desperately that Brahms would have written a horn concerto but that is not what happened. The Horn Trio is a completely fantastic work, loved by horn players the world over. Should we rather pine for something that wasn’t to be or take joy in what we have?

]]> By: Peter http://theomniscientmussel.com/2007/08/maybe-we-didnt-miss-out-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Peter Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:54:15 +0000 http://theomniscientmussel.com/?p=64#comment-69 Had we been able to receive just one more work from Beethoven, we might well have been grateful for his 57 years and considered ourselves blessed that his output was complete. Certainly the last of the piano sonatas, those 5 string quartets, and the colossal 9th Symphony are the crowning pinnacle of classical music, overshadowed perhaps slightly by the Missa Solemnis (certainly by the Sanctus of that Mass...was anything more sublime ever written?). But how excruciatingly and tantalisingly painful is it to consider that we do not have a Beethoven Requiem!!!!! OMG, what might he have written!!!!???? If you were to go to Vienna and take a tram from the city out to the Zentralfriedhof, the Central Cemetery, you could go see the man personally and listen to his music standing at his feet and allow your tears to flow and your heart to sob with gratitude to the greatest of the great. What a good thing to do. This year, in February, it was the Symphony No. 9 on my iPod. Next time, it's the Missa Solemnis. Had we been able to receive just one more work from Beethoven, we might well have been grateful for his 57 years and considered ourselves blessed that his output was complete. Certainly the last of the piano sonatas, those 5 string quartets, and the colossal 9th Symphony are the crowning pinnacle of classical music, overshadowed perhaps slightly by the Missa Solemnis (certainly by the Sanctus of that Mass…was anything more sublime ever written?). But how excruciatingly and tantalisingly painful is it to consider that we do not have a Beethoven Requiem!!!!! OMG, what might he have written!!!!????

If you were to go to Vienna and take a tram from the city out to the Zentralfriedhof, the Central Cemetery, you could go see the man personally and listen to his music standing at his feet and allow your tears to flow and your heart to sob with gratitude to the greatest of the great. What a good thing to do. This year, in February, it was the Symphony No. 9 on my iPod. Next time, it’s the Missa Solemnis.

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