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Yes ... that could be very near the truth, Gould not liking
the hedonistic aspects of Mozart. Certainly no one ever accused J.S. Bach
of being hedonistic.
I would not exactly describe myself as a hedonist ... but I am very drawn to and very much enjoy the lushness, the richnesses -- the chocolates and the fine wines, the Vienna pastries and the lobsters -- in Mozart's life, personality and music. Sometimes just listening to some particularly lush, lurid passages of Mozart gives me the same feelings of pleasant wickedness and guilt as if I had sneaked out to some wild, forbidden party. And although I enjoy Bach's music enormously, his austerity, his responsibility, his strict ideas of religion and behavior tend to put me off. It's easy to find Mozart music that is pure "fun" -- it's very hard to find any Bach that anyone could say, "Isn't this a lot of fun!" Bob madiva wrote: Glenn Gould was not a liar! |