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The Greatest [Top Ten Composers of all time revealed!]
NY Times Blog ^
| January 21, 2011
| ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Posted on 01/23/2011 1:38:09 PM PST by Pharmboy
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To: paulycy
He borrowed a LOT from Wagner.
To: Lauren BaRecall
Adagio for Strings is one of the saddest songs ever written or performed. We should just put loud speakers in the mountains of Afghanistan and play it over and over. I bet the Talibam will just jump off the cliffs. I mean come on. I listen to it and weep almost ever time. Ok maybe not but it is quite heart wrenching.
To: Borges
Debussy, ugh, I’ve had enough of his tone poems to last a lifetime. If a Frenchmen has to be included make it Saint Saens.
To: Gapplega
He borrowed a LOT from Wagner.They all got it from Haydn, and he isn't on the list either.
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01/23/2011 5:56:40 PM PST
by
paulycy
(Liberals suck all the joy out of America. Make them stop.)
To: crazydad
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posted on
01/23/2011 5:56:47 PM PST
by
kalee
(The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: paulycy
Ooops, guess I don’t belong on this thread. Sorry.
To: Pharmboy
I agree with you 100%, brilliance knows no musical genre.
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01/23/2011 6:09:04 PM PST
by
softwarecreator
(You say you want a revolution, well, you know ... we'd all love to see the plan.)
To: left that other site
You can thank his brother, Ira, for the very cleverly done lyrics. :-)
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01/23/2011 6:11:20 PM PST
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Eric Cantor is my current congressional heartthrob.[v. Hoyer, re House Schedule, CSpan 1/20/11])
To: paulycy
I love Bach. He is my all time hands down favorite classical composer. Of course I haven’t heard much classical music for years.
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01/23/2011 6:12:43 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: Pharmboy; All
Sorry guys, gotta bring this into at least the latter quarter of the 20th century.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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01/23/2011 6:13:05 PM PST
by
The Comedian
("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" - B. Goldwater)
To: paulycy
Hmm, no Vivaldi or Handel. I like Baroque music a lot.
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01/23/2011 6:15:37 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: Gapplega
What tone poems? Are you thinking of Richard Strauss? Debussy is a much more greater composer than SS.
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01/23/2011 6:16:19 PM PST
by
Borges
To: little jeremiah
Mozart is witty and beautiful beyond words. Mahler is both sublime and majestic. Stravinsky is so creatively bold and unique he deserves to be on this list. And there are so many incredible composers.
But nobody gets all the various parts of the mind and the soul moving like Bach.
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01/23/2011 6:16:48 PM PST
by
paulycy
(Liberals suck all the joy out of America. Make them stop.)
To: Brilliant
As I was thinking it over, I wondered "How about Scott Joplin and
Treemonisha?" And so, I came across the wiki version, which you may find as interesting as I did:
Treemonisha
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01/23/2011 6:18:25 PM PST
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Eric Cantor is my current congressional heartthrob.[v. Hoyer, re House Schedule, CSpan 1/20/11])
To: Third Person
The three most important musical compositions of the 19th century are Beethoven’s Eroica, Wagner’s Tristan and Debussy’s Prelude.
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01/23/2011 6:18:41 PM PST
by
Borges
To: crazydad
Adagio for Strings... Barber arranged it for chorus as well - his Agnes Dei.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkObnNQCMtM
The human voice has a power of expression no instrument can match. Singing is the gift God gave us, both to praise Him, and as a reason to praise Him.
To: little jeremiah
Agreed. Omitting Handel is unforgivable. As Bach was for instrumental music, Handel was for the voice. His music was/is of such exquisite refinement, invention, and perfection that it is not for nothing that Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart regarded him as the greatest composer of all.
To: InternetTuffGuy
The problem is that a very small % of Handel’s music is still played.
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01/23/2011 6:30:57 PM PST
by
Borges
To: left that other site
I agree. IMO, he's boring...never gets to the punch line. Like muzak for The Great Prairie (which deserves vastly better - like Elmer Bernstein did for The West).
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01/23/2011 6:39:12 PM PST
by
Lauren BaRecall
(Eric Cantor is my current congressional heartthrob.[v. Hoyer, re House Schedule, CSpan 1/20/11])
To: InternetTuffGuy
Agnus Die is amazing. Have it on my Ipod and it makes that song 100x better. The voice sets your body and heart into a dark sad place. But it is amazing.
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