@@harvestedvoltage4324 By a tiny number of people so entitled in the 18th century; neither you nor I nor anyone else is entitled to do so today as the nickname has serious pejorative undertones. Schubert called Salieri ‘Grosspapa’, does that mean we must do so as well ?
I would surprise me if even the musicians in the Eisenstadt orchestra adressed their conductor as "papa". And if so, it had nothing to do with his characteristics as a composer but with his care for them. Unfortunately this explanation is lost and papa became a nickname for a supposed good-natured, slightly old fashioned and mundane quality of his music. A long lived misunderstanding it seems. @@elaineblackhurst1509
