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That’s debatable. Mozart was good too. But my real OG is Camille Saint-Saens. You want dark and moody? Light and fluffy? Dazzles and sparkles? He’s your man.
by reactordev 11mo ago
That’s debatable. Mozart was good too. But my real OG is Camille Saint-Saens. You want dark and moody? Light and fluffy? Dazzles and sparkles? He’s your man.
- dabluecaboose 11mo agoDanse macabre is a true masterpiece. Incredible composer.
- reactordev 11mo agoCarnival of the Animals is better… Aquarium was my sons childhood theme song
- stevage 11mo agoOrgan symphony and piano concerto for me.
- reactordev 11mo agoSomeone yells from the back “What about the cellos?” :D
- BeFlatXIII 11mo agoCarnival of the Animals introduced me to high-effort shitposting. There is no other way to describe the less-famous movements.
- cons0le 11mo agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce8CDz9PUfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce8CDz9PUfs
- pfcd 11mo agoThis performance is also very great (No. 1 only, not the whole concerto): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcsfDxojdV8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcsfDxojdV8
- kulahan 11mo agoI think from a technical perspective, this is basically still true about Bach. It's not to say he has the most enjoyable music to listen to, but rather his music is built in a way that shows he was basically metagaming his music harder than anyone else ever has.
- stevage 11mo agoWhy do you say metagaming? Did he really advance the art so far? I think he was just incredibly good at producing music within his specific parameters. (Said as a huge fan of his work. I spent a year playing essentially nothing but one of his fugues.)
- Ericson2314 11mo agoYeah he did hugely advance it. This didn't really get noticed in his own day, as they were busy dumbing things down into the classical period, but he was hugely influencial through rediscovery. Except for Italian humanists rediscovering Greek and Roman writings, I'm having a hard time thinking of an earlier instance of a chiefly posthumous legacy.
- stevage 11mo agoI don't care for Mozart but Saint Saens yes. The second movement of the organ symphony is utterly sublime. By a ridiculous stroke of luck I got to perform that piece as soloist once. Unforgettable.
- cons0le 11mo agoNah Bach shits on Mozart. Mozart make extremely catchy music like Justin Beiber. I seriously do love mozart, but he merely wrote music. Bach weaved math into his music more than anyone before or after. His music sounds dense and more multi dimensional than mozart or saint saens. It really doesn't sound like he was trying to write beautiful music ( even though it is ) , it sounds like he was solving an equation and just writing out the answers as a harmonic sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmsNH8t25ck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmsNH8t25ck - This guy is like 95 and still shredding on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xJoVzoIQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xJoVzoIQg
- reactordev 11mo agoSee, music isn’t just math, it’s feel. I guess that’s why I dislike him the way I do. It’s too robotic. Truth is, they were ALL Justin Bieber. It’s all pop music of the time.
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- cons0le 11mo agoAhh yes, so robotic https://youtu.be/_1xJoVzoIQg?list=RD_1xJoVzoIQg https://youtu.be/_1xJoVzoIQg?list=RD_1xJoVzoIQg Also they were not all justin beiber. Bach was a working church musician when mozart was out touring europe getting drunk and shitting on women. Only one of them was in it for the fame. In fact you could say that mozart and liszt were 2 of the first "pop stars" because that archetype didn't exist before them. There was basically no "beatlesmania" over bach. He had a steady job, but he didn't die wealthy or famous.
- cybrox 11mo agoDid not expect one of the most unhinged discussions on HN to start over classical music but aight.
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