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Mine is Die Soldaten by Bernd Alois Zimmermann because of the background of the piece and an interest in Zimmermann in general.

But I’ve also got Helmut Lachenmann, Kaija Saariaho, and Salvatore Sciarrino on my listening list thanks to a friend.

Everyone talks about how Ravel didn’t write a lot of music, but there’s countless pieces that come off as pieces I’ve never heard of before like the chamber works, and the rapsodie espagnole, and a few others. I can consider borodin a composer who didn’t write enough because he physically only has a handful of pieces, but I also feel Bizet wrote tons of earlier operas and instrumental works too. That’s kind of the direction I’m going.

My friend was talking about how much he loved kodaly so I was curious why because he is a major composer in 20th century ethnomusicology. He said that the Cello Sonata pushed the instrument to. It’s absolute limits and that the Hary Janos sweet was probably the most colorful thing he’d heard in a while. I was wondering if you had any experiences like that from some pieces by him that you could recommend me giving a shot because I want to see what makes his music special.

Also, are there any scholarly books about his life and work that are accessible that I can look at because that would also be really nifty? And also some things that you think I should know about him that would help with understanding his music.

Thanks!

I know I keep posting about him, but I’m just curious as to when you exclude my country, his first quartet, piano trio, or The Bartered Bride, what pieces pop up as favorites?

I like the ones composed by Schumann like Kinderszenen and Kreisleriana and I also have a love for Smetana’s early collections:

Op. 1 set
Bagatelles et Impromptus
Wedding Scenes
3 Poetic Polkas
And later on Dreams

And also Grieg’s lyric pieces and MacDowell’s Sea Pieces

I have a recording of Carmen with Maria Callas from when I was a teenager, and I asked someone in r/classicalmusic when I saw them comment on a post having Lakme what other french operas they had:

It was:

The Pearl Fishers by Bizet
L’Enfant et Sortileges by Ravel
Dialogues of Carmelites by Poulenc
And then a Damnation of Faust recording

So I would just like to expand on this topic.

I don’t really get why the minuet is so popular because it’s just a typical classical era piece from a quintet that’s been used for high class Society and movies. And Boccherini deserves to be popular for his other greater works like his other string quintets that he himself invented. Also his guitar pieces and his Spanish inspired pieces. He’s a really major classical era and chamber music composer, who was extremely famous in his day and deserves to be taken much more seriously than his minuet.

Also, I love his other famous contemporaries of that day too like Kozeluch, Dittersdorf, Vanhal, and Kraus. What are your thoughts on the other composers too?

The ones that were that case with me were usually the Slavic ones like Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakov, Smetana, etc

The other one was Handel

Similar to how people say some of CPE Bach’s piano works foreshadow jazz, that sort of thing.

I had aspirations of becoming an investigator but as a teenager, my interests changed.

I wouldve done my local pizzeria that was a hospital before then, villisca axe murder house, prospect place, and eastern state penitentiary.

The wikipedia article on I-22 history section doesn't read very clearly to me. Is there anywhere that describes the timeline each section was upgraded to interstate standards? The article for US-78, which preceeded it, doesn't really describe when this happened, either. There seems to be a lot of attention paid to the development in Alabama, but very little about when it was built through Mississippi.

I feel like Georg Philip Telemann and Marc-Antoine Charpentier are some examples

I like a lot of Bizet like the pearl fishers and children’s games, the wildly popular piano four hands piece. And a couple of his melodies.

I want to make it friendly and professional. This is because I’ve never met him before and he’s never met me. How should I start out? How do I say what I am trying to do (reach out), and do you think it would work out? Regardless if he lived in the 1400s.

Hell, I’m about to draft one to Jacob Obrecht and Dufay

Looking at Sibelius‘s home makes me want to go to Finland, and also listening to his music a lot does that for me. You could tell he’s trying to evoke the feeling of being in Finland whenever you listen to some of this symphonies and tone poems (except Finlandia because that’s the whole point of the piece, but it does the same for me as well ) .

I also would love to check out Prague because of it’s medieval history, and I would love to go check out all of the places that Smetana blatantly highlights in my fatherland. He makes it very magical and exciting. (Side note: I also love the string sounds of the Czech Masters: from Smetana’s quartets to dvorak’s serenade, and janacek and suk pieces. Such a great culture).

I also want to go to Hungary to go see the villages that Bartok and Kodaly gathered their folk song material from. And also I want to check out Romania just because of the geography, and Transylvania from Bartók. Especially to go see Dracula’s Castle. But I also want to see some of Hungary’s castles. And definitely some of Czechoslovakia‘s castles.

I also feel like checking out some of Britain due to Delius, and maybe even Japan because of Takemitsu.

I want to bring him up and every family function, errand, funeral, wedding and talk about his superiority to Western music and society. I also want to talk about Wagner a lot. How do I do this?

My grandfather drove from Southern Mississippi to a camp that he sold up to Eupora Mississippi. And a couple friends of mine have a base near Elberton Georgia. Do you have any favorite areas to hunt?