anyone here listen to classical music? could anyone tell me some old composers like beethoven and bach that i may not have heard of? im interested >_>
i really like mozart(but you probably know him) vivaldi salieri( i dont really like him but he s known) schutz pagannini rossini wagner haydn puccini schubert verdi chopin these are the classicals i know. the wiki will probably have more but these are the ones i can have an opinion about. +rep to both of you for listening classical composers.
I'm a pretty big fan of the time periods after the Romantic of the 19th and before the Surrealist movement of the mid 20th century. Malher, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, and Saint-Saens (although he can be a little stiff) are some of my favorites.
i like classical because the music can be broken down to individual musicians playing a single note over and over and when its all together it makes sense as a whole into a song. what i do when i feel like listening to classical is find the local radio stations dedicated to classical and listen for what you enjoy. the ones in my area are pretty good in that if there are commercials at all, theyre very limited and you can just enjoy the music
thank you for the responses everyone. i had forgotten about paganini, i read about him in a led zeppelin book. got some of his stuff and im liking it
im surprised at how much i actually like this stuff haha. paganini is my favorite so far are you guys referring to josef wagner? thats what came up when i googled. oh and to flyhalf, i dont have any classical local radio stations
Listen to Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings". He was an early 20th century American composer. When the piece reaches it's incredibly high peak, the strings sound like angel's voices, not instruments, but voices.
Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen, Philip Glass, Charles Ives, and Steve Reich are some of my favorites. I'm a fan of mostly impressionist to modern classical
Gustav Holst's 'Planets' suite is fantastic. Some would say it's overrated, while others have never even heard of it. I'd give it a listen. It really puts you up there when you're lifted.