Weber, eh? I didn't take special note of his appearance in The Alteration, and I haven't read Girl, 20.
Tolkien said in an interview that he particularly liked Weber, which surprised me, as he's a far more luridly dramatic composer than would fit what I knew of Tolkien's tastes.
My own take on Weber is that he's the better composer whom Wagner is a bad imitation of. (And Wagner is the better composer whom Richard Strauss is a bad imitation of, and the bad imitations of Strauss are endless, especially in film scores, so the turtles keep going all the way down.)
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Date: 2007-05-27 12:57 pm (UTC)Tolkien said in an interview that he particularly liked Weber, which surprised me, as he's a far more luridly dramatic composer than would fit what I knew of Tolkien's tastes.
My own take on Weber is that he's the better composer whom Wagner is a bad imitation of. (And Wagner is the better composer whom Richard Strauss is a bad imitation of, and the bad imitations of Strauss are endless, especially in film scores, so the turtles keep going all the way down.)