Talk:Karl Richter
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Perhaps we should have a disambiguation; we already have one other Karl Richter and de:Wikipedia has several. -- Infrogmation 17:30, 9 August 2006 (UTC) Also: In the German edition of WIKIPEDIA ther is information about two Space Missions from NASA that include music by K Richter,these are VOYAGER and PIONEER. It will be good to include this onformation on the english WIKIPEDIA for K Richter. In other words the German language WIKIPEDIA has more information than the English WIKIPEDIA page on K Richter. Please see if they can have the same information. Thanks. Hugo.
On the sentence « He avoided the fluctuations in tempo that was one characteristic of the prevailing Romantic manner of conducting Bach, but otherwise made no attempt to be historically authentic in his performances, using modern instruments right to the end of his career », I agree with the 1st part as strongly as I disagree with the 2nd. Karl Richter always was visibly more authentic than many others; he simply thought, apparently, that "modern" instruments were more authentic to Bach's music, thoughts and habits, as well as to the era's general and popular ones, than all the current instruments disputedly called "period" or "original", that are actually very recently designed and built in the purpose of narrowing History, but with no proof that this purpose is reached. Hence I propose to replace that sentence with something like:
« In his continual hunt for perfection and authenticity, Karl Richter consistently kept from the fluctuations in tempo that were then one characteristic of the prevailing Romantic manner of conducting Bach, as well as from the disputedly called "Historically informed performance" or "period" or "original" instruments (designed in the recent years in an attempt to authenticity), apparently finding the older traditional "modern" instruments more authentic ».
I just edited the page that way, but knowing that this is politically sensible I also inform about it here, to keep record of the previous writing. Please anyone feel free to remove my edit if (whatever true it may be) you find it disturbing. Versailles, Mon 2 Jul 2007 17:29:25 +0200 Michel Merlin 15:29, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
- Your edit is simply dripping with partisanship, so I edited it to be less POV. Oh, and by the way, "disputedly" isn't even a word. --Vlmastra 17:18, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Let's try avoid useless heat. I don't feel more "dripping with partisanship" than the "did not use historically authentic performance practices", which implies without backing that Karl Richter were historically unauthentic, or than the "less POV", which I challenge. Please anyone either keep this reply posted, or obtain removal of the 3 POVs I just quoted. Thanks BTW for the correction (once corrected, "disputably" is shown accurate by... this dispute! ;-) ).Michel Merlin 12:13, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
