FAQs: >How do I into classical? Browse the folders linked below. It's easier for us to then rec you stuff if you have an idea of what you already like. >I'm ~20 years old and I want to become a concert soloist. If I practice really hard, will I make it? Almost certainly not. However you can still become a very accomplished performer with enough practice and if it makes you happy, then go for it. >Do I need to know music theory to listen to classical music? No, but it won't harm your listening experience if you do.
Chinese are like robots, or some sort of insect or fungi. They aren't real people. They are a hivemind of soulless, unblinking animals that exist only to perform specific mundane tasks. The reason they are so prevalent is because there are so many of them, and most people don't really care to question it.
I think most of his contact with Liszt was when Liszt was in his "rockstar" phase, sleeping with half the female aristocratic population of Europe while Brahms was stuck being Clara's cuck.
There was also the whole war of the romantics in which Brahms got grumpy that everyone liked Liszt so much.
Christian Stewart
Came here to post this.
Also tasteless plebeians and diversity quotas, largely courtesy of England's (cuck) very own BBC (large black dingus)
Also: Daily reminder that unironically listening to anything other than Mozart is literally pointless.
Kevin Butler
xD
Owen Morris
yeah the former sounds like some pop-psych 101 sophomoronic bullshit. The latter explains everything. Brahms had serius reservations about the saccharine and melodramatic sound that had come to characterize the romantic period following Berlioz. Brahms was trying to maintain some order so that music wouldn't go to shit at the hands of Debussys and Mahlers and Schoenbergs. Honestly I like two of those composers but in a very tangible sense those guys really destroyed musical academia.
Asher Hernandez
>tfw you will never play Handel and Bach with Mozart
Ian Morgan
>not liking Showahnbuhg
Chase Smith
>those guys really destroyed musical academia. no they didn't, you autist, anymore than "le barbarians destroyed rome"
its not like musical academia by third quarter of the 19th century was worth saving anyway.
Parker Jenkins
I was memeing a little bit. But I remember reading an excerpt from Clara's diaries in which she got very angry at Liszt for turning up to drunk to dinner at their house and then going away to call on some high-class woman because he got bored. Or something to that effect
Ryder Harris
>with Mozart ew
Isaiah Fisher
Wrong, its Mahluh whom I hate. Although odly enough I am a massive fan of Shosty. I guess the satirical nature of his music plays better as a case of railing against an oppressive regime. Ironically that oppressive regime is probably kept him from developing into a second-rate Berg.
>from developing into a second-rate Berg. Yeah, instead he developed into a third-rate Mahler.
Chase Edwards
blown the fuck out
Hunter Roberts
there is a general for k pop
Brody Lee
I always find it amusing how pretty much everyone talks about the circumstances surrounding Shostakovich's music instead of the music itself. Though I suppose it's appropriate, since 2/3rds of the man's works was generic populist shite, filled to brim with """"satire"""" that can't get over itself. And apparently neither could Shostakovich, since he recycled that satire in numerous compositions.
I fucking hate Shostakovich so much. Garbage composer.
Jaxson Rivera
his late quartets and his last two symphonies are good
his most commonly played music though is pretty bad, i agree. if i hear that 5th symphony one more god-damn time
and dont get me started on "le portrait of stalin" movement from the 10th symphony
Chase Wilson
>not liking the 5th
Isaac Lee
someone recommend me important Bach pieces for my comprehensive introductory playlist for my friend. I sadly don't know my Bach that well to pick out the best.
Adam Cooper
Schumann's Piano Quintet is GOAT
Robert Brown
not even close to GOAT status you fucking embryo
Angel Howard
Proofs?
Adam Cook
Prelude of Well-tempered Clavier #1 in C, Prelude of Cello Suite #1 in G, Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565), St Matthew's Passion opening Chorus (Kommt, ihr Tochter, helft mir klagen) and closing Chorus (Wir setzen uns mit Tranen nieder), St John's Passion opening Chorus (Herr, unser Herrscher), Choral prelude "Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ" (BWV 639), Goldberg Variations Aria
Nathan Davis
I have been listening to some Händel lately, and his music is divine.
I'm writing a paper on Mahler. Which of his pieces would contrast well with one of his Wunderhorn lieds?
Daniel Sanchez
>listen to Sibelius >it's fucking legend of zelda music What the fuck, Finland.
Gabriel Jones
anything, the wunderhorn lieder don't even sound like the other lieder he wrote
Ian White
Is the accordion, dare i say it, our instrument?
Ethan Baker
The only legacy Finland has given to the word are dank memes. They're terrible at anything else.
Alexander Sanchez
God I hope not
Caleb Hernandez
>Shostakovich was in many ways an obsessive man: according to his daughter he was "obsessed with cleanliness"; he synchronised the clocks in his apartment; he regularly sent cards to himself to test how well the postal service was working. Was he autistic?
Xavier Miller
Almost as bad as Bruckner stopping people with buttons on their clothing so he could count them all.
Lucas Cooper
How'd he do it?
Adrian Lopez
That fucking trio from the scherzo gets me every time. Like, seriously how could that music be conceived in early 19th century Vienna?
Op. 131 and this C major quintet divide all subsequent chamber music. There is no third.
Mason Richardson
Post Mozart's most underrated piece. NOW!
Jack Peterson
I remember that a decade ago my music teacher showed in class a video of his son performing a concerto for accordion.
lmao did he wipe his ass with the bottom left corner or something
Jackson Bennett
I don't remember. It was a decade ago and I was a little kid who didn't listen to music at all. Now I'm interested, though, can anyone rec a good accordion concerto?
Connor Cooper
Hildemith's Kammemusik No. 1 has an accordion, if that counts.
Julian Hill
What would Beethoven think about you, your piano technique and your compositions?
Luis Carter
I can just make up some bullshit about how my shitty piano playing is considered exceptional in the future
Charles Cox
>teaching your son how to play a classical accordion
How can you possibly hate your prole this much? If he really likes music he is stuck with a shit instrument, if he doesn't you have wasted his childhood with an instrument that everyone see as lame.
What a shit move.
Jonathan Collins
I'm pretty sure that he would be pissed at you because you haven't mastered the baroque and classical style.
Adrian Sullivan
How would he know if he's deaf?
Ian Turner
the nutcracker is such a silly name
what were they thinking?
Bentley Perez
>about an anthropomorphized wooden tool used for cracking nuts why not call it The Nutcracker
Michael Cook
Well why don't you come up with something better if it's so silly?
China has a new money McMansion culture of importing luxury western products. Classical music is like a Dolce & Gabbana purse. It isn't handed on to them over the centuries from their perspective.
Ryder Perry
It's foolish of me to not listen to Handel more since I only really know English. I'm just used to hearing music purely as arranged sounds I guess.
Dominic Gomez
How about the Nutcracker? It's everywhere these days.
Joseph Davis
LiterL /r/classical tier post
Jace Green
Why do you guys hate popular compositions this much? Plebs don't really care about old nerd music anyway.
Wyatt Adams
I started listening to classical within the last couple months, and I've realized it takes multiple listens to find out if I really like a certain piece or not. Will I ever reach a point where I can get enjoyment out of a piece on first listen?
Why the fuck are you posting something I already posted on the thread you piece of shit. I wish I could hate you and your whole family to death you stupid fuck.
Brandon Gomez
t. Erik Satie
Camden Harris
I don't mean relatively simple(?) pieces like that. My favorite symphony right now is Dvorak's 9th. It's a pleb choice, I know, but it took me multiple weeks to fully appreciate. Same goes for Beethoven's Grosse Fugue, and pretty much everything else.
My question is if I will ever be able to tell what I like upon first listen.
