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Right ho, darlin'. Yeh, be home about 8:30. No, no, I'll go on a bike
Beethoven's gone, but his music lives on
and Mozart don't go shoppin' no more
You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again
and Elgar doesn't answer the door
Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh
whilst composing a long symphony
but one 'undred an' fifty years later
there's very little of them left to see
They're decomposing composers
There's nothing much anyone can do
You can still 'ear Beethoven
but Beethoven cannot 'ear you
Handel and Haydn and Rachmaninoff
Enjoyed a nice drink with their meal
but nowadays no one will serve them
and their gravy is left to congeal
Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
with their highly original sound
The pianos they played are still working
but they're both six feet underground
They're decomposing composers
there's less of them every year
You can say what you like to Debussy
but there's not much of him left to 'ear
Claude Achille Debussy, died 1918
Christophe Willibald Gluck, died 1787
Carl Maria von Weber, not at all well 1825, died 1826
Giacomo Meyerbeer, still alive 1863, not still alive 1864
Modest Mussorgski, 1880, going to parties, no fun anymore, 1881
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, chatting away nineteen to the dozen with
his mates down the pub every evening 1836, 1837, nothing
(Stavro Arrgolus) |
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 | 02-21-16, #MMS-195 | | 08-22-09, #ROTP_261 |
| 10-19-14, #MMS-188 | | 01-21-07, #MMS-62 |
| 04-15-11, #ROTP_347 |  | 04-30-00, #00-18 |
| 02-26-11, #MMS-143 | | 05-15-94, #94-20 |
| 06-25-10, #ROTP_305 | | 07-11-93, #93-28 |
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