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Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

Originally posted by Ozark Soundscape Ozark Soundscape wrote:

Schoenberg tests my patience, definitely, but out of his string quartets I've enjoyed a fair amount of it. Second quartet is pretty good imo.
I'll have to give that a listen. With Webern there are a lot of subtle things going on sonically. With Berg there were moments of tonality that made the atonal parts more bleak. I'm just not quite sure what Schoenberg was going for. I do have yet to listen to his Quartets though.


Try Schoenberg's Violin Concerto as well.
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If you want something more tonal from Webern, try "Im Sommerwind", a tone poem that he wrote early on while he was studying with Schoenberg.  Really beautiful piece with nothing "weird" going on.


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"Im Sommerwind" is great, I remember that from a concert long ago.
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None, really. I used to hate Prokofiev's music, but then heard his 5th Symphony conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, and was converted.
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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

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I don't get the point of Webern at all.


I don't understand - he was a core of the Second Viennese School and had significant influence on a lot of 20th century avant-garde composers.  Now, if you don't like his stuff, no problem, but he very much "had a point".
Okay, let me rephrase. I've found the Webern pieces I've listened to to be pointless.

Also, now that I think of it, haven't liked a lot of the Bach I've heard. Sounds very pompous to me.
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Well, what do you enjoy?  (even though it's blatantly anti-topic)
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Glass, Reich, Beethoven, Debussy, Stravinsky, and Varese are my favorites as far as classical goes.
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of Schoenberg I mostly enjoy "Verlärte Nacht", either in the Version for string sextet or for orchestra, and the "Gurrelieder"


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Originally posted by Ozark Soundscape Ozark Soundscape wrote:

Glass, Reich, Beethoven, Debussy, Stravinsky, and Varese are my favorites as far as classical goes.


So mostly 20th century - I've only dabbled, currently I'm just too addicted to Romantic music.
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I hate Debussy. Not because his music is awful, I think it's very creative and complex at times, but when I have to play Debussy it's so frustrating he uses quite unusual keys and as a result, takes a lot of time to study and you have to check every chord you play each time you play it. I mean the amount of black keys is quite high and the chords are creative and not really what you'd expect in any way Ermm... LOL

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Hate is a very hard word, but i wonder why Tchaikovsky get that much credit compared to others i personally find much more interesting.    
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He's Russian and everything ending with ov(/w)sky(/i) schould get the highest devotion!














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Originally posted by DDPascalDD DDPascalDD wrote:

I hate Debussy. Not because his music is awful, I think it's very creative and complex at times, but when I have to play Debussy it's so frustrating he uses quite unusual keys and as a result, takes a lot of time to study and you have to check every chord you play each time you play it. I mean the amount of black keys is quite high and the chords are creative and not really what you'd expect in any way Ermm... LOL
Lol personally I think that'd make me like him more, but I like a challenge.
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Originally posted by DDPascalDD DDPascalDD wrote:

I hate Debussy. Not because his music is awful, I think it's very creative and complex at times, but when I have to play Debussy it's so frustrating he uses quite unusual keys and as a result, takes a lot of time to study and you have to check every chord you play each time you play it. I mean the amount of black keys is quite high and the chords are creative and not really what you'd expect in any way Ermm... LOL
Wait till you have to play Ravel. The harmonic structure of Debussy plus the hand stretches of Chopin.


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Originally posted by tamijo tamijo wrote:

Hate is a very hard word, but i wonder why Tchaikovsky get that much credit compared to others i personally find much more interesting.    
It's his orchestration that's typically praised. But I'm with you. I don't like him near as much as some of the other Romantics.
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Tchaikovsky's cool. Not amazing but I like his work.
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None, but then I am more interested in new music.  But classical had its day and in its day, it was pretty good...
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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* pretty good the best ever! Wink Tongue 
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Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

Originally posted by DDPascalDD DDPascalDD wrote:

I hate Debussy. Not because his music is awful, I think it's very creative and complex at times, but when I have to play Debussy it's so frustrating he uses quite unusual keys and as a result, takes a lot of time to study and you have to check every chord you play each time you play it. I mean the amount of black keys is quite high and the chords are creative and not really what you'd expect in any way Ermm... LOL
Wait till you have to play Ravel. The harmonic structure of Debussy plus the hand stretches of Chopin.

the hand stretches are no problem for me since I have extremely huge hands. unfortunately I have extremely huge feet as well. I have to have my shoes custom-made because there aren't any in my size


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