It brought me joy to read comments from friends and visitors from my first niche website "Classical Music, Mozart & Other Composers" I started at Netscape after the millennium (2000). There were more but these are the ones I salvaged as Netscape stopped services.
In 2004, I re-started eight various blogs in Wordpress. They're all gone too except for two blogs which I've retained and moved to Blogger. I've also consolidated some posts and started few more websites now all at Blogger.Com, with my now-flagship Inspired Pen Web. These comments came from my past classical music website, mainly, Netscape.
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Comments from friends and visitors ...
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Yea. Mozart is #1. Some two years ago, at the BritishMuseum, on exhibit was one of Mozart's original composition manuscripts. I was in awe to come so close to it, to stand before it in the very same place and position Mozart was as he penned his genius into that manuscript... Pahteets Castro, NJ, USA. (28 June 2000)
I love the music of Haydn and Mozart almost equally. It's almost impossible to say whether one is "greater" than the other or "greater" than other composers for that matter. Mozart was a genius whose nature comes along perhaps once every two or three centuries, and I've always been sorry that he had not lived longer. I do regard Haydn as perhaps the most influential composer of all time. Without Haydn, it is safe to say that there would exist no fixed form to sonata structure, the symphony, and the string quartet, as we universally identify these forms today. - Brad Tenan, Connecticut, USA. ( 8 November 2001)
Tributes to violinist Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001), who recently died at age 81.
(1) Isaac Stern will always be remembered with his 'crusade' to save Carnegie Hall. - With thanks to colleagues in my classical music eGroups at Yahoo.com.
(2) I remember as a student in London; hearing him play the Beethoven concerto, his performance swept me. The next day in the Times, the critic said it was as far as he was concerned, the best performance ever! That was in 1957! Stern's recordings of the Haydn Concertos are also my favorites. He will be sorely missed. - I. Sholto-Douglas.
(3) When I hear of someone who has died after such a full life in which he lived out his great talent and did much for his field in addition, and continued in his work until a ripe old age, the sadness is mixed with a celebration of a life so well lived that most persons could only aspire to te same mixture of talent, good fortune, and labor. - Dr. Y.L. Arbeitman (29 September 2001)
Music is the source of many people's energy that flows like blood through one's veins. Listen and feel the beat as it progresses through the air, through one's body, mind, and ultimately to one's soul. Let music be your food of love, laughter and happiness. Here's a toast to Chopin, an inspiration to the world! - Johanna Rosee, Sydney (12 November 2001)
Every piece of Mozart's music consists of a precise emotion that can be as simple, as pure happiness or sadness. Because of this precision and conciseness, his music goes straight into my heart and shares in my mind whatever it is... What great comfort he has given me! Mozart is no god, but through his music he protects my soul from harm and hurt, from becoming hopeless, and from feeling all alone. He is my saviour, and I believe in him, always have, always will - Ruby Wong, Hongkong (9 December 2001)
I'd like to pay tribute to Ludwig van Beethoven for his wonderful sonatas and as an on-and-off chorister, most especially for his immortal "Ode to Joy". His mighty words always linger: "In spite of the weakness of my body my spirit will never give in. I shall seize fate by the throat. It will never subdue me". His message was driven home with all the pathos of his being, as he composed his emotional yet powerful 9th Symphony... Tel.
Mozart is without a doubt my favourite composer... he composed such a plethora of works, from short and simple marches to grand operas, and to be played on anything from a solo harpsichord to a complete orchestra... no one before him, nor since, could make such a complex piece of work seem so fluid, all while evoking the highs and lows only a beautiful piece of art can. Mozart wrote music to fall into. - Ben Wilson-Hill, Sydney (24 December 2001)
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