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schubert
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Well I'm only 17, so my only instrumental training is primarily in clarinet and a little piano.
I agree. German composers are amazingly superior, and I mean that in a non-Nazi sort of way. Yeah Strauss is definitely not a favorite of mine. Haha...I have to write a 5000 word essay this summer about Wagner's propagation of anti-semitism in Europe and his status as a Nazi icon. Not fun...but at least it's about music and not something else.
Love Beethoven too, especially piano concertos, chamber music, and string quartets. How about Brahms? Symphony No. 1, Hungarian Dances, string quartets, so much else. You ever heard of Mozart - he's pretty good I guess. Haha only joking. Greatest musician of all time. Love all of his music.
I agree. German composers are amazingly superior, and I mean that in a non-Nazi sort of way. Yeah Strauss is definitely not a favorite of mine. Haha...I have to write a 5000 word essay this summer about Wagner's propagation of anti-semitism in Europe and his status as a Nazi icon. Not fun...but at least it's about music and not something else.
Love Beethoven too, especially piano concertos, chamber music, and string quartets. How about Brahms? Symphony No. 1, Hungarian Dances, string quartets, so much else. You ever heard of Mozart - he's pretty good I guess. Haha only joking. Greatest musician of all time. Love all of his music.
ericp2311
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I find Wagner to be a fascinating character! There's certainly a lot of "juice" for an essay on that subject. There are only two people who have had more books written about them than Wagner...Napoleon and Jesus Christ (not necessarily in that order).
Beethoven, to answer your question posed in another thread, is to me the world's greatest musician. No one else has done more to change the way we experience music than him. Beethoven was a revolutionary in that he wrote music that was internal...about man's relationship to the cosmos, rather than JUST the cosmos. In this way, he took the notion of romantiscism and made it apply to music.
Eek...anyways, I was lucky enough to hear the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra perform his Ninth Symphony two years ago, and I still get goosebumps thinking about it.
If you need any help on your essay...
eric
Beethoven, to answer your question posed in another thread, is to me the world's greatest musician. No one else has done more to change the way we experience music than him. Beethoven was a revolutionary in that he wrote music that was internal...about man's relationship to the cosmos, rather than JUST the cosmos. In this way, he took the notion of romantiscism and made it apply to music.
Eek...anyways, I was lucky enough to hear the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra perform his Ninth Symphony two years ago, and I still get goosebumps thinking about it.
If you need any help on your essay...
eric