What do you guys think about mendelssohns songs without words?
Adam Sanders
some of the best piano works of the first half of the 19th century. My only gripe is that there aren't more slow, texturally pieces like the Venetian Gondola ones
I'd accept that Schubert was a strong precursor to romanticism but Mendelssohn(as well as Brahms) was imo still of the classical era in spirit, Berlioz was one of the very first true romantics.
Parker Jenkins
Wagner is good.
Jackson Young
I'll accept your opinion, since I'm not sure it can be changed, but I'm compelled to mention the following: Berlioz, like Wagner and Liszt, was a radical, and basically part of the Neudeutsche Schule, which was in open contradiction with the properly, "orthodox" Romantic spirit. Also saying Brahms wasn't romantic is like saying Haydn wasn't a classical composer. He's archetypically romantic, and funny enough almost the epitome of that "orthodox" school of romanticism.
Luis Wright
>in spirit we discuss music here, not spirits ya, I guess
Nicholas James
You might as well say that bach wasn't baroque and mozart wasn't classical
You joke, but if mozart had lived long enough he probably would have stumbled unto a pseudo-romantic style All the clues were there in his last symphonies
Levi Diaz
had Mozart lived long enough to further develop his style he would have composed in a style close to that of Mendelssohn circa 1827-1837 and Schumann circa 1840-1850
Erly gran pianos sounded like crap. In piano trios by Haydn violin and cello are virtually overdubbing piano. Did anyone attempt to perfom them solo on modern pianos?
Perhaps the 2nd movement of beethovens 32nd sonata ?
Aiden Adams
All of them
Josiah Morales
Why would f# minor lend itself to virtuoso wankery
Jeremiah Williams
Rautavaara had no musical training until he was 17
Camden Watson
From Wikipedia
> The few concerti written in this key are usually written for the composer himself to play, including Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1, Scriabin's Piano Concerto, Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 1, Vieuxtemps's Violin Concerto No. 2, and Koussevitzky's Double Bass Concerto.
