Philip Howard

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Thanks very much - and thanks for the Bod page too! --Philip Howard 19:49, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Moszkowski

Hi. I've just caught up on your comment re the Moszkowski D major polonaise. Great to see there are other Moszkowski lovers out there. I think he's really at the front rank of the not-quite-famous composers from the Romnantic era. Cheers JackofOz 23:13, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Ken Bolam

(I'm moving our discussion here, since talk pages are where how-to discussions and the like should go.)

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Thanks for thatPhilip Howard (talk) 15:57, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Regarding the 'original research' you removed from the Beethoven Piano Concerto Nº.3 article

I am surprised that my contribution was removed. Far from 'original research' I only posted that information after checking out a copy of the original 1992 article on Google books which I linked to in the references. That indicated that the cadenza in question had been found in a copy of the 3rd concerto held at Melk abbey and used for a performance there in 1827. Evidence in the score used for that performance indicated the cadenza found had been used at that performance. On those grounds I thought it appropriate to mention the cadenza in the article. Graham1973 (talk) 11:37, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

BeethovenGate

I did not regard the removal as a personal attack, but I did feel it was a little hasty.

The idea of listing cadenza's sounds like a good one. Here is what I do know.

The article New Sources for Beethoven's Piano Concerto Cadenzas from Melk Abbey gives the known background and details of the Cadenza found at that location in 1989. The primary interest there is that while the author is unknown, it was found in a collection that included copies of cadenzas by Beethoven (for the fourth piano concerto) copied from his own papers (eg. the autographs). The article lists several other composers contemporary with Beethoven who wrote Cadenzas for the 3rd Piano Concerto, Ferdinand Ries, Carl Czerny & Freidrich Mockwitz. Only the Czerny cadenza could be located when the article was published in 1992. The Brahms cadenza was not added by myself and I have little information on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Graham1973 (talk • contribs) 15:19, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

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Peach

Thanks for catching that, I meant to tag the appearance section as a citation needed, in hopes that someone would expand it a bit with referenced material instead of the opinion of one author (although, I agree with the statement that they're sweeter/more fragrant etc, it still should be cited if that claim is going to be made) Regards, -- nsaum75 ^{!Dígame¡‎} 21:46, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

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