Talk:Johann Kaspar Mertz

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Name

This article should be renamed (moved to) "Caspar Joseph Mertz". He was baptised "Casparus Josephus Mertz", and in German-speaking Habsburg Hungary, this was "Caspar Joseph". "Johann Kaspar" was merely a misprint or misreading in a 20th-century music edition, a mistake that shouldn't be continued. Although some of his music is published as by "Johann Kaspar Mertz", more modern editions and virtually all recent CD recordings of his music are as "Caspar Joseph Mertz".

I will leave this comment here for some weeks, and if there are no objections will move to the new name in July. Aklein62 (talk) 09:47, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As of today more than 4 years and a half later the name has not yet been modified... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.43.202.137 (talk) 23:30, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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"Speculation may lead one to the conclusion that listening to his wife performing the Romantic piano pieces of the day during his period of recovery may have had an influence on the sound and unusual right hand technique he adopted for the Bardenklange (Bardic Sounds) Op.13."

Not only is this only a very weak speculation, but it also does not really say anything of substance. "influence on the sound" has no essential content. If it refers to musical texture or harmonic palette it should say so. If it refers to anything else it is specious.

Consultation with newsgroups and listservs of classical guitarists turns up no one who knows of any "unusual right hand technique" believed to have been used by Mertz or that can be inferred from his compositions.

Richard Yates

Ryates 12:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This stub lacks citations. Why the Bardenklänge are the most important of Mertz contributions to the guitar repertoire? Who says that?

Julio Velez

December 28, 2010- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.28.139.23 (talk) 01:55, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 01:56, 30 December 2010 (UTC). Substituted at 20:02, 29 April 2016 (UTC)