Manton will hate me for saying it but I like a lot of Liszt's compositions.
me too. i love liszt. the most accomplished pianist of his time.
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Manton will hate me for saying it but I like a lot of Liszt's compositions.
Manton will hate me for saying it but I like a lot of Liszt's compositions.
I won't argue (because the music speaks for itself), but Beethoven did, in fact, become Haydn's pupil only to pwnz0r the old man with his revolutionary compositions and refusal to cater to the aristocracy's taste for Mozart's music is certainly more "natural" than Beethoven's, but to seek to elevate the former on that basis is to miss the point entirely. Beethoven was the first composer to humanize music - that is, to render it PSYCHOLOGICAL. It is this very "strain", as you correctly call it, which makes him the grand-master of musical composition still to this day. In fact, it is on this very basis that I sympathize with the many dozens of my peers who can scarcely listen to Mozart for this very reason: his music is TOO natural, seldom human. I don't prescribe to this view entirely, but I certainly view his Requiem as an exception to the rule. Again, I won't argue much on this point. Suffice it to say that Beethoven and Bach are the two pillars of Western classical music in my eyes, and that I can scarcely take any man's opinions seriously who would say that Mozart is their superior in any qualitative sense whatsoever.
WTF does that even mean? Sounds like pseudo-academic mental masturbation.
WTF does that even mean? Sounds like pseudo-academic mental masturbation.
WTF does that even mean? Sounds like pseudo-academic mental masturbation.
One of my all-time favourites -- I love it.
Mozart blows. Too many notes.
And one of the best dance pieces ever made to this sublime piece of music, Jiri Kylian's Petite Mort:
Which notes should be taken out, your majesty?
I like Schubert best of all, but I know next to nothing about classical music. But for whatever reason, his string quartets and quintets bring tears to my eyes every time.
Have you heard his 8th symphony? It's unfinished, but considered among his greatest. In terms of its emotional content, it's a far cry from the very sweet, melodic symphonies he wrote leading up to it.