Modern songs have verse-chorus-verse, which exaggerate the catchy chorus, the part that listeners want to hear, but when you listen to iconic passages in classical music, the composer seems to treat the catchy part as a rare delicacy, not revisited in the song unless abstractly. Why?
Similarly, the musical works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and the composers of the Renaissance, Classical, and Romantic eras put to shame today's animalistic noises recorded in batches of a few minutes, churned out by the ton by studios profiting from selling to man the titillation of his basest instincts. Whereas the music of the golden era spoke to man's soul and awakened him to think of higher callings than the mundane grind of daily life, today's musical noises speak to man's most base animalistic instincts, distracting him from the realities of life by inviting him to indulge in immediate sensory pleasures with no concern for long‐term consequences or anything more profound. It was hard money that financed Bach's Brandenburg Concertos while easy money financed Miley Cyrus's twerks. The Bitcoin standard!
Hi all,
looking for the best biographies on romantic era classical composers, particularly interested in Chopin and Tchaikovsky.
Hey! My favourite era/style of classical music is the late romantic era, specifically the tradition from Wagner extending to Mahler and early Schoenberg (i.e. Gurrelieder)-unsurprising since Wagner and Mahler are my all-time favourite along with Bach.
My problem is it's so hard to find composers who wrote in this style, especially in the Austro-German tradition, with most composers seeming to be either on the side of the rather more throwback style of Brahms and Schumann or modernism (Schoenberg, Stravinsky), both of which I love but nearly as much as the one in between the two. There's just nothing that can give me goose bumps like Wagner and Mahler and would love to find other composers who wrote similar things, particularly their more romantic, sensual sounding music.
Examples:
Tristan prelude, Wagner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l25J7xdhhKc
"Es muss ein Wunderbares sein", song, Lizst: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpK9irt0u9M
Gurrelieder, cantata, Schoenberg (honestly listen to the whole thing, it's huge, but just a masterpiece): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qahTc253qZU
Symphony 6, Andante, Mahler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvUego50gVg
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Hey guys,
I absolutely love the style of Tarrega but most of his repertoire is out of my reach at this point. I was wondering if there was other composer that has more late beginner - early intermediate piece to play.
Thanks guys!
Here's the link to the performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW5p40rNccE Thanks for watching/listening, and hope you enjoy.
My apologies if a hypothetical question like this was asked already.
What do you think Beethoven's, Mozart's, Haydn's, etc. reactions would be if by some miracle we could revive them and show them the works of Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, etc.?
I've been listening to a lot of composers from the Romantic Era recently, and their style is so similar to Classical, but in a very free-flowing, unstructured, almost "break-the-rules" avant-garde way. Some of Beethoven's later works sound mildly Romantic, so I'm assuming he was aware of the natural evolution of music. Mozart and Haydn also used a lot of accidentals in their music, but they were "perfectly" placed and structured, unlike Liszt's and Chopin's accidentals.
I'm assuming Classical era composers would be amazed by the works of the Romantic era composers, but humans can also be very resistant to change, and theres a chance they might have viewed Romantic era music as blasphemous. What do you think?
