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Chopin's music is "too good" to be salon music? Is this phrase mainly used for second-rate or derivative pieces? DavidRF ( talk) 19:26, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I think this is rather a false distinction, and a misleading one ultimately. Many of the artists listed in this section had major, influential careers in the 20th century e.g. Kreissler, Heifetz, Casals et cet. that cannot be compared with someone like Thalberg in the 19th, who was something of a circus act by all accounts and whose compositions are long gone from the rep because they're so cheap. Even the transcriptions of the little pieces Casals and Kreissler made are too serious or well done to be classed in this genre, the bulk of them anyway. And everybody still plays them. Why are these people listed here? Laguna greg ( talk) 17:15, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Agreed. Paul Hindemith a salon performer? At the start of his career he may have taken gigs to pay the rent, but he certainly isn't known as a performer for social gatherings.
MarkinBoston ( talk) 22:52, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
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Chopin's music is "too good" to be salon music? Is this phrase mainly used for second-rate or derivative pieces? DavidRF ( talk) 19:26, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I think this is rather a false distinction, and a misleading one ultimately. Many of the artists listed in this section had major, influential careers in the 20th century e.g. Kreissler, Heifetz, Casals et cet. that cannot be compared with someone like Thalberg in the 19th, who was something of a circus act by all accounts and whose compositions are long gone from the rep because they're so cheap. Even the transcriptions of the little pieces Casals and Kreissler made are too serious or well done to be classed in this genre, the bulk of them anyway. And everybody still plays them. Why are these people listed here? Laguna greg ( talk) 17:15, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Agreed. Paul Hindemith a salon performer? At the start of his career he may have taken gigs to pay the rent, but he certainly isn't known as a performer for social gatherings.
MarkinBoston ( talk) 22:52, 26 January 2022 (UTC)