Stravinsky vs Tchaikovsky

el böthy wrote: The T wrote: Tchaikovsky here would be seen as the "cheesy, melody-crazy band" (mmmm, DT? )... Starvinsky would be the "avant-garde intellectual group (mmm, fill the blank....)..... Both are masters, the one revolutionized music, tonality but mostly rhythm (with Le Sacre du Printemps)... The other is the Mozart of the Russian era (in terms of melody-creating power) , the other one is the romantic, the passionate in times were russian music was mostly nationalist. I love Tchaikovsky more so I go with him. Stravinsky is a genius but too dry for me. Its easy to see where you are coming from. You can certainly "feel" more with Tchaikovsky.

I agree on this, but as to 'feel', I don't think Stravinsky's music has less 'feel', just another kind of 'feel', that actually catches me far more. Though Tchaikovsky is too cheesy for my taste, I absolutely agree that he was one of the greatest composers and respect his work a lot.

Still, Stravinsky wins this by a long shot for me.


Edited by Eerichtho - July 02 2007 at 04:37

The T wrote: thellama73 wrote: A tough call as both are great, but I have to go with Tchaikovsky because at heart I am a Romantic.  My favorite composer of all time, though, is the oft-maligned Franz Liszt.    A great master.... He should've composed more... His piano concertos are great, even though they are seldom put among the greatest representations of the genre.

He should have composed more? I have 16 CDs of his music and that's not even close to half of it. It's just that most of it is obscure and not in the standard repertoire.

The T wrote: Tchaikovsky here would be seen as the "cheesy, melody-crazy band" (mmmm, DT? )... Starvinsky would be the "avant-garde intellectual group (mmm, fill the blank....)..... Both are masters, the one revolutionized music, tonality but mostly rhythm (with Le Sacre du Printemps)... The other is the Mozart of the Russian era (in terms of melody-creating power) , the other one is the romantic, the passionate in times were russian music was mostly nationalist. I love Tchaikovsky more so I go with him. Stravinsky is a genius but too dry for me.

Its easy to see where you are coming from. You can certainly "feel" more with Tchaikovsky.

Tchaikovsky here would be seen as the "cheesy, melody-crazy band" (mmmm, DT? )... Starvinsky would be the "avant-garde intellectual group (mmm, fill the blank....)..... Both are masters, the one revolutionized music, tonality but mostly rhythm (with Le Sacre du Printemps)... The other is the Mozart of the Russian era (in terms of melody-creating power) , the other one is the romantic, the passionate in times were russian music was mostly nationalist. I love Tchaikovsky more so I go with him. Stravinsky is a genius but too dry for me.

ah thats a hard one. i studied classical history last year at an art school. interesting stuff. On this id have to go with Stravinsky. I like his works more. and he was the first i heard of the two. The Rite of Spring is what got me and I beleive its called Firebird? not sure its been a bit haha