Yes, in that Scriabin is unequivocally the most concentrated musical exponent of extravagance, but that doesn't mean we have to larp as ascetics and reject him wholesale.
/classical/
Christian Hernandez
Sebastian James
no
Levi Moore
List them
Jason Barnes
Yes, he was the hackest of them all, in fact the only 100% hack. This complete hack state allowed him to transcend hackery and enter a form of non-hackery never before seen.
Jordan Phillips
>When STEMtards try to talk about art
embarrassing
Jaxson Sanchez
that's a lot of words to say nothing related to music
Dominic Bailey
Is that Penguin companion to Classical music a good book for obtaining a deep understanding of classical music?
Thomas Wright
Beethoven
Händel
Haydn
Bach
Palestrina
Pfitzner
Bruckner
Mahler
Brahms
Schubert
Schumann
Berlioz
Verdi
Puccini
Strauss
Strauß Father
Strauß Son
Rossini
Bellini
Czerny
Zelenka
Bartok
Janacek
Dvorak
Bruch
Smetana
Tchaikovsky
Borodin
Sibelius
Rimsky-Korsakov
Vivaldi
Telemann
Saint-Saëns
JC Bach
CPE Bach
Ives
Elgar
Delius
Vaughan Williams
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Lutoslawski
Szymanowski
Panufnik
Stockhausen
Stravinsky
Boulez
Schmidt
Schmitt
Clara Schumann
Lily Boulanger
Ravel
Debussy
Lully
Rameau
Alessandro Scarlatti
Domenico Scarlatti
Gluck
Charpentier
Salieri
Sacchini
Meyerbeer
Mendelssohn
Scriabin
Sorabij
Nono
Berio
Berg
Schönberg
Webern
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Wagner
Humperdinck
Mozart
Copland
Gershwin
Bernstein
Albeniz
Rodrigo
Resphigi
Nicolai
Kalman
Raff
Röntgen
Stenhammar
Nielsen
(Thomas Aids lol)
Rautavaara
(minimalists Reich, Andriessen, Adams, Pärt)
Lincoln Wilson
>I can name ~200 classical composers off the top of my head, despite not being familiar with a majority of their works.
You don't need to listen to every work of every composer. Many of the old masters have hundreds if not thousands of works, each of which may span from minutes to hours. It will take forever and there are diminishing returns as not every work of a particular composer is completely different from the others. Not every composer is completely different from every other composers either.
>how do I start
Just pick one of those 200 composers you know and dig into them. You are free to move on when you feel like it isn't fruitful anymore for whatever reason. It might be that sometimes your urge to move is due to that you are being challenged in some way. Thus it might be worth to sit it through sometimes (not all the time) or try to attack the music in a different way. Sometimes you might encounter music that just goes over your head. Then it might be better to revisit later.
Robert Johnson
And browse /classical/ and the internet in general for finding obscure composers you haven't heard about.
en.wikipedia.org