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Jonathan O'Neill
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"Professional musicians and connoisseurs tend to forget that even music badly played can sound beautiful and give pleasure."
Phew! There's hope for me yet!
— Mar 16, 2023 03:28AM
Phew! There's hope for me yet!
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Jonathan O'Neill
is on page 198 of 247
"...the thirty Goldberg Variations [were] probably never played in [their] entirety even for a small audience of a dozen people before 1810, when E.T.A Hoffman described such a modest performance in a salon (people began to leave by the fourth variation, and only one listener remained at the end)."
Preposterous!... But to be fair, I might too if they were being played on a harpsichord! 😅
— Mar 22, 2023 04:28AM
Preposterous!... But to be fair, I might too if they were being played on a harpsichord! 😅
