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Goldberg
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I didn't expect that a nationalistic view could be present in a harpsichord book. The English keyboard school is presented as seminal and the Italian keyboard school as superficial? I mean we had Scarlatti? Galuppi, Paradisi. Now name an English harpsichord composer. Lol. This is beyond ridiculous.
— Sep 16, 2026 01:07AM
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Goldberg
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I would never think that I would racist things about Italians in a harpsichord book but here we are: all the Italian keyboard music is "superficial" and not relevant, of Course Scarlatti father and son, and the fact that academic counterpoint was invented in Italy is not enough to make it relevant. While the English school is quite incredible even of we don't remember one name of it.
— Sep 16, 2026 09:46AM