Every Bach piece sounds the same. Shit-tier composer.
Samuel Robinson
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Levi Ward
Disliking Bach is a sign of low musical intelligence.
There's a reason why every major composer for the past few hundreds years has absolutely adored Bach and been deeply inspired by his work. And that reason is because the music that Bach created was simply brilliant.
If you don't love the baroque style compared to later styles thats one thing. But you have to respect the ingenious of Bach's work.
Disliking Bach is like disliking Shakespeare or Isaac Newton. It comes off as ignorant.
James Reyes
I’ve never listened to Sibelius, Schubert, Schumann, Scarlatti, Saint Saens, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Messiaen, Mendelssohn, Mahler, Liszt, Janacek, Haydn, Handel, Britten, Brahms, Berlioz, or Bartok.
Who do I skip? Who do I listen to some stuff? Who do I listen to everything they made?
holy fucking pleb just listen to stuff and see if you like it or not.
Ethan Cook
>Who do I listen to everything they made? Sibelius, Schubert, Schumann, Scarlatti, Saint Saens, Mendelssohn, Mahler, Liszt, Haydn, Handel, Britten, Brahms, Berlioz, and Bartok. >Who do I listen to some stuff? Janacek, Messiaen (but only skip the stuff post-1974, everything before that is golden) >Who do I skip? Rachmaninoff
Gabriel Martinez
I listen to classical by picking one composer and then listening nonstop for 6 months straight so I'd rather not waste of my time with someone if there is someone better I could be listening to
Julian Turner
>composers that evoke the highest emotional response Bach Mozart Beethoven
>composers that are the most fun to listen to Haydn Handel
>most pretentious composers Mahler Wagner
>composers that innovated the most for the sake of it and never composed anything good Cage other modernists
>composers that innovated the most for the sake of making their music better Debussy Stravinsky
Jack Fisher
forgot to put Prokofiev on the "some stuff" category
Landon Garcia
What I admire of all these edgy contrarians shitting on the greatest names of academic music is the fact that they look at centuries of history, composers, influences, schools, critics, even public appreciation right in the face -centuries of it!- and say: "No. It is you who are wrong. I have found a hidden truth invisible to two, three, five hundred years of fanatical scrutiny; I alone have found this flaw: Your admired and revered and established composers are a fraud and my own personal taste or distaste is what objectively dictates and steers reality itself." Of course, when they are faced with this reality, their addled brains immediately turn this logical fallacy of theirs into an argumentative fault on the other: "you're just appealing to authority/antiquity/popularity". There, the logical vacuum has been filled with something, anything, and the panic of facing reality has been once again avoided.
It takes an absolutely enormous ego, an impossibly blind critical eye and an unsalvageable ear, but overall it takes the obstinate monothematic wall-banging of a literal schizophrenic to think that way, and I think that's one of may forms, or deformities as it were, that courage can take. Just for that, I salute you.
Owen Lopez
now that I think about it you might as well skip Britten too, and replace him with a more interesting british composer of the era like Delius or Vaughan Williams
Daniel Foster
too many addendums; let's try this again properly
>Who do I listen to everything they made? Sibelius, Schubert, Schumann, Scarlatti, Saint Saens, Mendelssohn, Mahler, Liszt, Haydn, Handel, Brahms, Berlioz, Messiaen (except his post-74 work which is meh) and Bartok. >Who do I listen to some stuff? Janacek, Prokofiev >Who do I skip? Rachmaninoff, Britten
Christopher Roberts
I gotta say this 12 post stuff is really quite impressive Have some florida for your troubles youtu.be/tEWl60cUd_Y
Joshua Long
Thanks. I thought it would only be a handful of composers from that list that I should listen to everything from.
Liam Russell
If you want help, you should probably prioritize the early romantics(mendelssohn, schubert, schumann, liszt) Liszt is a good jumping point into late romantic stuff
Evan Turner
Right now go to youtube and listen to Rachmaninov piano concerto 3 (Horowitz, Argerich -this one super fast-, Trifonov are all good) and Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor
I can't listen to Beethoven or Handel because they sound too "naked" and (I don't know how to put it) "dramatic" or "sentimental" to me. Other romantics have this problem too (as you'd think) but none of them bother me nearly to the same extent as Handel and Beethoven. t. Listens most to Renaissance - Classical
Liam Wood
yo fuck the music she make my dick hard
Cooper Peterson
Beethoven was an incel manlet drama queen. That is why his music is like that.
Colton White
You could remove Rachmaninoff from history and the course of music wouldn't change
Charles Morgan
Thanks for your input but please reply to my post directly next time otherwise I get no (You)s
Juan Garcia
I only listen to renaissance, baroque and classical for the same reason with the exceptions of Chopin, Schumann and Debussy because they aren't that dramatic. I can't stand Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mahler and the like. I still enjoy Handel, though. He doesn't sound that dramatic to me, I don't see how his Water Music sounds any more dramatic than other famous baroque concertos like the Brandenburg Concertos and the Four Seasons.
Is prokofiev an aquired taste or is he just boring?
Jack Lewis
Only good thing Beethoven did was pave the way for Brahms and Wagner.
Colton Turner
The same goes for Bach, he was an old fashioned reactionary, and during most of Haydn's lifetime, people thought CPE Bach was a greater composer than his father. Classical period music doesn't owe much to Bach.
Jack Lewis
>early romantics don't forget Berlioz
Kevin Bailey
He's too traditional, not necessarily boring. You go to him when you're in the mood for sober, "traditional" music in the midst of a century of experimentation and mould-breaking. It's not an acquired taste either since he's so readily accessible. It's more for the kind of people who prefer Stravinsky's stark neoclassicism over his revloutionary modernist period or his late adoption of serial techniques.
Hudson Morales
>yfw youll never listen to a live orchestra again in the free way it used to be concerts will ptobably come back but half people will be masked, there will be covid anouncements and the atmosphere will be ruined forever for such acts.
Jose Perez
>The same goes for Bach, he was an old fashioned reactionary, and during most of Haydn's lifetime, people thought CPE Bach was a greater composer than his father. Classical period music doesn't owe much to Bach.
