Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival: Beethoven/MacCombie/Dvořák

Like all composers, Beethoven learned from his peers and forebears. For the main melody of the final movement of his Clarinet trio, Beethoven borrowed a popular song. Meanwhile, for his work Light Upon the Turning Leaf, Bruce MacCombie stole material from earlier works of his own, while Dvořák’s Piano Quintet in A Major was spurred by an earlier work that he considered a failure. Sometimes, practice does make perfect.
