Derek Bourgeois

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Scion7

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September 09, 2017, 05:35:51 PM Last Edit: September 09, 2017, 06:16:50 PM by Scion7
Quote from: relm1 on September 09, 2017, 04:16:07 PM
But after No. 7, none of his next 109 symphonies were performed for orchestra (in his life time). 

Yes, I am updating the works list I posted and just saw that enormous output.
There's no way quality could be maintained - he was not a GREAT composer - he was an off/on good one, from what I've listened to today, so far.  He wasn't Haydn, after all, composing symphonies over the stretch of his life.  Those later grinding-it-out symphonies were all composed over only 14 years.
Nobody's that inspired!
When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."
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