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The Greatest [Who were the top ten composers of all time?]
NY Times Blog ^
| January 7, 2011
| ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Posted on 01/09/2011 7:12:24 AM PST by Pharmboy
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Let the fun begin...my tops are (in order): Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Mozart, Schubert, Buxtehude (just kidding on the last)
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01/09/2011 7:12:29 AM PST
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Pharmboy
To: sitetest
Classical ping...your thought?
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posted on
01/09/2011 7:13:26 AM PST
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Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. From there it gets into a more difficult evaluation.
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posted on
01/09/2011 7:15:38 AM PST
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WILLIALAL
To: Pharmboy; .30Carbine; 1cewolf; 1rudeboy; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 31R1O; ADemocratNoMore; ...
Dear Pharmboy,
Thanks for the ping!
Sounds like fun!
Classical Music Ping List ping!
If you want on or off this list, let me know via FR e-mail.
Thanks,
sitetest
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posted on
01/09/2011 7:16:29 AM PST
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sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
To: Pharmboy
Paganini...for nothing more than the Caprices.
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01/09/2011 7:20:03 AM PST
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PubliusMM
(RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
To: Pharmboy
An interesting topic. I have a different slant as I think so many were extraordinary.
What I really find facinating is that their type of intelligence doesn’t seem to exist anymore. Where is today’s Beethoven? These guys wrote celebrated compositions in DAYS from pen to performance and were unbelieveably prolific in their output (Bach, Beethoven, Telemann, Handel, Donizetti, Mozart). Today is is an endeavor that takes months or years to come out with 1 composition considered noteworthy.
Seems like we are, at best, becoming more distracted or, at worst, losing brainpower or inspiration.
To: PubliusMM
Agreed...and I was thinking of Liszt for the Fantasies.
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01/09/2011 7:23:37 AM PST
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Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
01/09/2011 7:24:31 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(It is Satan's fault)
To: Pharmboy
Not a single Baroque composer in the mix? No operatic composers? There are probably a couple in there now. This must be classical in the classical sense. Rogers and Hammerstein were pretty good too. I guess I just couldn’t say whose best, if you are listening, best might just be what you are listening to at the time.
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posted on
01/09/2011 7:24:49 AM PST
by
wita
To: Pharmboy
Films: John Williams, but many more great ones!
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01/09/2011 7:26:39 AM PST
by
Errant
To: Pharmboy
Vivaldi Vivaldi Vivaldi
To: JRandomFreeper; All
Jimmy Page.not even close. For starters, Plant was the brains of the outfit.
Now, Lennon - McCartney? Freddie Mercury? Awesome, but probably not top ten of all time.
To: Pharmboy
For me also Wagner and Mahler. Love Beethoven’s chamber music but not his Symphonies (sorry).
Brahms, Faure, Mendelssohn, Frank are also in my favorites.
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01/09/2011 7:34:04 AM PST
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etabeta
To: Errant
Haydn? Brahms? Mahler?
Listen to Holst “The Planets.” Then listen to John Williams’ Star Wars soundtrack.
To: Pharmboy
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01/09/2011 7:34:39 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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1. Sibelius
2. Brahms
3. Wagner
4. Frank Zappa
5. Mussorgsky/Rimsky-Korsakov
6. Dave Brubeck
7. Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack, Jr.
8. George Gershwin
9. Kitaro
10. Alice Cooper <;^))
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01/09/2011 7:34:52 AM PST
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shibumi
(Sleeping amphibians are TASTY! (burp!))
To: Pharmboy
Paddy Moloney (The Chieftains)
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posted on
01/09/2011 7:38:30 AM PST
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jla
To: Pharmboy
Bach first. What can compare to his Mass in B Minor?
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posted on
01/09/2011 7:42:37 AM PST
by
buridan
To: etabeta
Hmmm...so funny you mention this about Beethoven. I listened to all his symphonies as a teenager and loved them; as I aged, I shed almost all of them (I still listen to his first and last). His piano sonatas and string quartets I NEVER tire of...and yet...and yet...sitting in the Multiplex last week watching The King's Speech, towards the end of the movie I hear the second movement of his Seventh Symphony. It was like I never heard it before...
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01/09/2011 7:43:19 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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