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jazzbird said:Of those you listed, I chose Bach.....If you would have told me ten years ago - or even five - that I would be typing those words, I wouldn't have believed you. Has anyone else found that they appreciate Bach more and more the older you get?
Other favorites not on your poll include Puccini and Brahms.
Interesting. I agree with you about Bartok. I do not know his music all that well, but whenever I do hear him, I think, I've got to get to know him better. For me, I found the Romantics easy to love from the beginning. I really connected with the passion and emotion. I found Bach to be too orderly and dry - clinical in a way. But now, I am really beginning to appreciate that order. Everything has its perfect place in his music. For me, I suppose it largely depends on my mood. Lately, I seem to be listening to more of the old stuff like Bach and Monteverdi. Though a couple weeks ago I did listen to Mahler's 5th three times in a row on a long car ride down to Indiana! That was fun, my speakers were practically vibrating the whole car.Dikki said:For me it was the other way round: I started out with Bach, but the older I got, the more I realised my taste changed. Bach is very much in a European tradition, using much melody that was available at the time. I got bored with it and wanted more.
What I like and find in a lot of late romantic composers is the use of remnant of traditional melodies from other cultures. Like Bartok in his violin quartets. I think it is much more developped than Bach.
Though I realise I challenge a lot of you with this.
(I still like Bach)
jazzbird said:Though a couple weeks ago I did listen to Mahler's 5th three times in a row on a long car ride down to Indiana! That was fun, my speakers were practically vibrating the whole car.
i doubt, though, that bach wrote the words.Bonifatius said:Or at the moment after the death of our Lord Bach puts the choral:
Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden,
so scheide nicht von mir.
Wenn ich den Tod soll leiden,
so tritt du dann herfür.
Wenn mir am allerbängsten
wird um das Herze sein,
so reiß mich aus den Ängsten
kraft deiner Angst und Pein.
This is one of the deepest consolations for the dying one can think of!
YWGWYS said:i doubt, though, that bach wrote the words.
Yeah, that's what I thought when I heard how ChopIn is pronounced.DreamTheater said:I really enjoy Edvard Grieg, Beethoven, Chopen, and Bach.
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