Favorite classical song and/or composer?

[Metalman7983]

we need a fresh new thread so here we go.


Dmitri Shostakovich- 7th symphony (leningrad) in C major makes C major sound as evil as it could ever be.

Igor Stravinsky- Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) and L'Oiseau de feu (The Firebird). one the creators of atonality, he was the first to write neo-classical (yngwie damn copycat lol)

Antonio Vivaldi- Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) A master of his instrument (violin) and he always put on a good show supposedly to me he is the first rock star

Ludwig Beethoven- Pathetique Piano Sonata in C minor The sonata comprised of three movements:
1. Grave; allegro di molto e con brio
2. Adagio cantabile
3. Rondo: allegro
found some interesting facts about this sonata
kiss used a theme from the sonata on their song great expectations, Billy joel used it in one of his songs to. Also it was played on an episode of seinfeld and peanuts.

next thing you know it will be a rap song hahahah

 

[Kenneth R.]

Dmitri Shostakovich- 7th symphony (leningrad) in C major makes C major sound as evil as it could ever be.

+1

+Nutcracker Suite (if this counts)

+Handel "Messiah"

 

[Rose Immortal]

Rite of Spring--good choice! Man, I could hear SymX doing that one. Not sure how to describe this part, but remember where, in the Fantasia version, the volcanoes are exploding? That would RULE.


Some of my other favorites:

Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture (first classical piece I ever loved)

Bach's organ works

Copland's "Appalachian Spring"

Gershwin's "An American in Paris"

There are more, but these are the first to come to mind.

 

[sx-pi-r]

Any Bach stuff will get me going, but im not really into the classical thing alot.

 

[Metalman7983]

yea i really like the 1812 overture. Tchaikovsky is also one of my favorites too.

interesting fact about that song I always thought it was about the American war of 1812 but it really has to do with another total different war in russia...Napoleonic Wars in 1812

 

[Anonymous]

Bach is the best!

Harpsichord Concerto in D minor (allegro) !!! (aka where the classical part of A Fool's Paradise comes from)

Mozart is also really awesome... Fantasia in D Minor for example. His symphony no.40 also pwns.

Vivaldi is another of my favorites, anybody who can write a 40 minute masterpiece like The Four Seasons is awesome in my book.

 

[wchuck]

I think my favourite is Beethoven!
I mean, 5th Symphony, Moonlight Sonata...

I also like Scarlatti, e.g. "Sonata in E-Minor K11"...

I also enjoy Holst and Wagner...

 

[Rose Immortal]

interesting fact about that song I always thought it was about the American war of 1812 but it really has to do with another total different war in russia...Napoleonic Wars in 1812

LOL, I thought the same thing when I was younger!

 

[DoomsdayZach]

Anything that sounds like it belongs in a Rhapsody song, like Ride of the Valkyries

 

[Horus]

Really, anything Bach, Mozart, Pagani, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and what DoomsdayZach said.

 

[Matt]

bach, buxtehude, widor, franc, basically any organ stuff cause I play in church, after all.

 

[RobbM]

The Planets by Holst and all of Paganinis Caprice's. I Also enjoy Franz Liszt and Sergei Prokofiev.

 

[Eternal Dragon]

Dmitri Shostakovich- 7th symphony (leningrad) in C major makes C major sound as evil as it could ever be.

How could C major be evil??? Wouldn't it then be A minor??

 

[SyXified]

I don't think I've ever heard a "classical" song better than Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. However, Debussy's La Mer is pretty close, as are his Nocturnes. In terms of true classical period classical music I like Mozart's Requiem (and that's one of the few Mozart pieces I truly admire), and Beethoven's 3rd symphony (Eroica).

 

[Luis]

we need a fresh new thread so here we go.



Ludwig Beethoven- Pathetique Piano Sonata in C minor The sonata comprised of three movements:
1. Grave; allegro di molto e con brio
2. Adagio cantabile
3. Rondo: allegro
found some interesting facts about this sonata
kiss used a theme from the sonata on their song great expectations, Billy joel used it in one of his songs to. Also it was played on an episode of seinfeld and peanuts.

Symphony X used it too¡¡¡

Best piano sonata work ever written IMO.

 

[Rose Immortal]

n terms of true classical period classical music I like Mozart's Requiem (and that's one of the few Mozart pieces I truly admire)

I feel the same way about Mozart. Everything else he did, besides that, is too mechanical-sounding to me, to really enjoy.

 

[Luis]

bach, buxtehude, widor, franc, basically any organ stuff cause I play in church, after all.

I love the piano and organ works by Cesar Franck. Since you play in church, i guess you might be familair with his stuff.

 

[Luis]

I feel the same way about Mozart. Everything else he did, besides that, is too mechanical-sounding to me, to really enjoy.

Please, do your self a favor and listen to his Clarinet Quintet and his Piano Concerto num 12.

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

Oh man, too many to mention. But I will say that I recently re-discovered the amazing works of Schoenberg.

 

[Metalman7983]

if you dont believe me about how evil you can make C major sound just buy a cd with that symphony or download it and you will completely understand