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perfect wagnerite
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« on: 10:11:22, 07-03-2007 »
Sad news of the death of one of the greats of musical scholarship:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2028101,00.html

The obituary doesn't mention his pioneering work on Don Carlos; it's true to say that it is thanks to Budden that we know what we do about this work.
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #1 on: 12:06:11, 07-03-2007 »
Ah, that's sad indeed - his infectious enthusiasm for his subject shone a bright light on even the most obscure nooks and crannies of it.
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« Reply #2 on: 15:43:20, 07-03-2007 »
The Buddens lived fairly near to us in Cheshire when I was a kid. His mother (I think, I never quite sorted out the Buddens) wrote books for children, sort of superior comic strips.
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« Reply #3 on: 15:49:48, 07-03-2007 »
A great loss of surely the most important of all writers on Verdi in the twentieth century.
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« Reply #4 on: 17:53:37, 07-03-2007 »
Sad I'm sure I read something by him recently in a programme or magazine, but I suppose it could have been a reprint.
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« Reply #5 on: 18:40:21, 08-03-2007 »
Quote from: perfect wagnerite on 10:11:22, 07-03-2007
Sad news of the death of one of the greats of musical scholarship:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2028101,00.html

The obituary doesn't mention his pioneering work on Don Carlos; it's true to say that it is thanks to Budden that we know what we do about this work.

Oh dear, I am sorry to hear this....
Although much of the credit for our current state of knowledge of DON CARLOS actually goes to Andrew Porter, who is happily still with us.
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« Reply #6 on: 18:52:30, 08-03-2007 »
Quote from: operacat on 18:40:21, 08-03-2007
Quote from: perfect wagnerite on 10:11:22, 07-03-2007
Sad news of the death of one of the greats of musical scholarship:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2028101,00.html

The obituary doesn't mention his pioneering work on Don Carlos; it's true to say that it is thanks to Budden that we know what we do about this work.

Oh dear, I am sorry to hear this....
Although much of the credit for our current state of knowledge of DON CARLOS actually goes to Andrew Porter, who is happily still with us.


Operacat, you are of course quite right - I was getting the two confused.  Obviously posting much too early in the day ...
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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