Hmmm...it seems to me that the more one reads about late 18th/early 19thc composers - Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, etc (even Brahms) the more one loves them as people. With 20thc giants such as Stravinsky, Strauss, Debussy, that's just not the case. What does that signify?
I personally find Rachmaninov very hard not to love (and, after reading several biographies, can see no good reason to struggle against the inclination.) Would you not call him a 20th century giant? Or would you just dismiss him as an exception?
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Ah yes - there ARE exceptions, of course, to both rules. And yes, Rachmaninov (who died on this day in 1943) a giant in all senses!
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So much about Rachmaninov charms me (although of course a grueling compassion seizes me when I reflect on the profound melancholy that clung to him so tenaciously from February 1917 until the end of his days.) Like Wodehouse, he certainly loved his zippy little two-seaters!
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