Posted on 01/23/2011 1:38:09 PM PST by Pharmboy
I don’t like Aaron Copeland. His music reminds me of a Corn Flake Commercial.
I LOVE Borodin! The Complete Polovetzian Dances with vocals, in Russian, is sublime.
Also the string quartet that was morphed into “This Is My Beloved” in Kismet is a favorite of mine.
Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsokoff, Chopin, Mahler, and my personal fav, Dvorak, would all make my list.
You are a FlagLady after my own heart! :-)
Dieterich Buxtehude (German pronunciation: [ˈdiːtəʁɪç bʊkstəˈhuːdə], also Dietrich; Danish Diderich [ˈdidəʁɪk buksdəˈhuːðə], equivalent to the modern Diderik) c. 1637-1639 - May 1707 was a German-Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and in church services. He composed in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental idioms, and his style strongly influenced many composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach. Buxtehude, along with Heinrich Schütz, is considered today to be one of the most important German composers of the mid-Baroque.[2]
I’m going with Debussy. Bach??? no soul.
This was not MY list, but the author of the article. Although I do agree with him on seven; how he could leave Chopin off, I will NEVER know.
hahahah! That’s what this thread needs!
Pucinni and Kate Bush.
Listen to the Mass in B Minor and then see if you can say that. If you can, then *you* have no soul.
With all respect, you have not given Bach the time he deserves...please listen to the partitas for solo violin or perhaps the orchestral suites. I used to think the same about him (that he was without soul), but boy was I wrong.
I’m sure there are some fine people on that list. But I’m going with (or at least going to add) Charles Ives, Edgar Varese, Leonard Bernstein, and Frank Zappa.
I respectfully disagree.
Perhaps Debussy would be better off on a list of the 10 greatest composers of the 20th century.
Bela Bartok? I don’t get that.
Here’s some more of that “souless” music...
Bach’s Sonata No. 1 “Siciliana”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGEBiPy5lH0&feature=related
Wagner the Pink Floyd of his time.. Such innovations and such beautifully composed preludes. And his hard a— operas were probably considered the Metal of the 1800s. IMO he is one of the best. If you can get past what a nasty man he was.
No way Gilmour blows away Page any day.
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