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    Posted: August 04 2022 at 03:27
Thought I would start a thread on musical works that have officially been dedicated to someone or something that stands out and whose dedication means the most to you. Any music genre, and you can post the music in question, if you like.

I would like to start off with Rush's Caress Of Steel album, which was dedicated by the band to TV show host, writer, and humanitarian Rod Serling, who had died recently around the time of the album's release.



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Richard Strauss's tone poem Ein Heldenleben, which was dedicated to Dutch  conductor Willem Mengelberg, who Strauss greatly admired; here is a recording of the work conducted by Mengelberg himself!
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Austrian composer Franz Schmidt dedicated his 4th Symphony to conductor and champion Oswald Kabasta, and here is a recording of it conducted by Kabasta, himself.
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Triumvirat musician/singer/songwriter the late Helmut Koellen's solo album You Won't See Me was released after he died on May 3rd,, 1977. It  was dedicated to his parents. Here is the album's title track.
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Triumvirat's Pompeii album was dedicated to the group's previous member Helmut Koellen, who had died recently. Here is the single from the album, The Hymn.
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The Head Hunters (Herbie Hancock) wrote and recorded a song called "Sly", dedicated to Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone.
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Anton Bruckner dedicated his 9th Symphony, "to dear God". Here is a pioneer recording of the "original version" of the symphony, conducted by Siegmund von Hausegger
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I'll take the term 'dedicated' a little loosely here.
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

I'll take the term 'dedicated' a little loosely here.


The story of a parent's worst nightmare; it took real courage for Greg Lake to write about that and perform that song...
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I'm fairly certain just about every album is dedicated to somebody.  When you read the liner notes there is generally a dedication in most every album I see.  Generally, they are dedicated to recently deceased family members.  Not sure if you want every album ever dedicated to mom and dad and granny and grandpa listed here. Embarrassed
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One of the most moving I know is Mostly Autumn: White Rainbow

the whole album is dedicated to Liam Davison, their second guitarist, who had been with the band from the beginning and died in 2017, a few days before his 50th birthday. All the songs are about him personally and frankly, an album couldn't get more intimate.

Artistically, it also happens to be a stunning piece of work.
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This one is dedicated to you:
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

I'm fairly certain just about every album is dedicated to somebody.  When you read the liner notes there is generally a dedication in most every album I see.  Generally, they are dedicated to recently deceased family members.  Not sure if you want every album ever dedicated to mom and dad and granny and grandpa listed here. Embarrassed
I see your point. I guess I could amend things to say works whose dedication stands out for you, that means the most for you; I just amended my beginning post like that.


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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

This one is dedicated to you:

i find that music incredibly awesome, actually!Thumbs Up
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Not sure why this was the first that came to mind.
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