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PROVOCATIVE THOUGHTS:
The late Patric Standford may have written these short pieces deliberately to provoke our feedback. If so, his success is reflected in the rich range of readers' comments appearing at the foot of most of the pages.
DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Composers, individuals or collective?, including contributions from David Arditti, Halida Dinova, Robert McCarney and Jane Stanley.
German composer Friedrich Witt was born 8 November 1770 at what is now Niederstetten, Württemberg. His various posts in Würzburg (where he died on 3 January 1836) provided outlets for his operas, symphonies, masses, oratorios, cantatas and chamber music.