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Strict Construction Virtuosity

By on 3.18.08 @ 4:07PM

Alfred Brendel is a great pianist, not a constitutional scholar, but he has a deep understanding of orginalism, properly understood:


"...the main thing I have learned early on is that you should get the information about the piece from the piece, and not inform it on the basis of what the piece should be like or what the composer should have written."

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Wlady Pleszczynski is editorial director of The American Spectator and editor-at-large of AmSpec Online.

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