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Music
Boretz, Benjamin | March 24, 1962 issue

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According to the author, he had spoken of the considerable extent of, the performer's responsibilities for understanding and interpreting works that approach formal perfection. But these responsibilities are perhaps even greater when the work involved is an important classic of the musical literature that nevertheless reveals serious flaws in composition. Australian composer Franz Schubert evidently composed his Ninth Symphony out of determination to reach toward a large-scale dramatic structure like those he admired in the heroic works of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

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COMPOSITION (Music); COMPOSERS; RESPONSIBILITY; SYMPHONIES; NINTH Symphony (Music); SCHUBERT, Franz, 1797-1828; BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van, 1770-1827; MUSIC
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