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First for Wagner.
Post composer from your country
They get almost everything wrong in the video.
>The impression was indescribable; but it could have been greater had my attention not been distracted by so many other things. In the first place the orchestra, the size of which amazed me. Then the conductor, and the people, the opera and so on. Naturally the performance was inspired. The orchestra played quite beautifully altogether. I admired especially their discipline; the crescendos and decrescendos were simply miraculous. From the beginning I liked Schmedes best. The scenery was very beautiful. The closing scene; the conflagration in the hall of the gods, -sadly I could not see, since I sat in the second row of a box. Of the whole "Ring" Götterdämmerung is my favourite. Particularly the orchestral pieces in it are so splendid: and Brünnhilde's Love motive, which continues, becoming ever more triumphant, until the sound of Siegfried's theme rises up victoriously in ff. Then Siegfried's Rhine journey, his shattering Funeral March and the various interludes. The early awakening sunrise made the greatest impression on me, with the following scene between Siegfried and Brünnhilde, then the vanquishing of Brünnhilde by Siegfried in the form of Gunther, the scene with Siegfried and the Rhine maidens, Siegfried's death and funeral march, and finally, the titanically powerful, weightily pressing closing themes of Brünnhilde with the grandiose, heart-rending motive of Brünnhilde with the grandiose, heart-rending motive of Redemption through Love; the end of the works strikes me as something so utterly overpowering that I always begin to play this music with profound trembling; I am quite unworthy to play such music.
more like gaybern(stein)
>The impression was overwhelming. If I were to say what made the greatest effect on me, it was the scene in which the lovers drink the potion, the lovers' duet, Tristan's asking Isolde wheter she will follow him into the "dark-nighted land" and Isolde's answer, and finally the entire third act with its dreadful climaxes, Winkelmann's Tristan is absolutely second to none; his interpretation, especially during the last act, is magnificient. All the rest of the cast with the exception of Ritter (Marke), were excellent. The orchestra played very beautifully, though I thought the Vorspiel much the best. Sitting in the first row of the parquet and having thoroughly studied the score beforehand, I could savour everything wonderfully, and thus I had an indescribable experience which I shall never forget.
how can you listen to offenbach and fucking get handel? What the fuck nigga?
xenakis and caged walked so sachiko, otomo and toshimaru can run
All our composers are garbage
For some reason the act 2 duet is what composers love the most but is the least favourite part for normies.
>Towards the end of his long and successful life, Verdi could afford to admit to Felix Philippi: ‘The work which always arouses my greatest admiration is Tristan. This gigantic structure fills me time and time again with astonishment and awe, and I still cannot quite comprehend that it was conceived and written by a human being. I consider the second act, in its wealth of musical invention, its tenderness and sensuality of musical expression and inspired orchestration, to be one of the finest creations that has ever issued from a human mind.’
>but is the least favourite part for normies.
hurwitz complains that the libretto sounds like 2 highschoolers who just discovered weed, so you may be onto something
if hurwitz hates it, I like it
>Igor Stravinsky wrote "I say that in the aria 'La donna è mobile', for example, which the elite thinks only brilliant and superficial, there is more substance and feeling than in the whole of Wagner's Ring cycle."
it's so beautiful:
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I like them, even if they're just stale college kids making money off jewtube.
Stravinsky Sucks Cock
Rossini Sucks Cock
Verdi Sucks Cock
Schoenberg Sucks Cock
Boulez Sucks Cock
W.
sorry, not as good as schoenberg's third string quartet.
Filtered plebian, it is alright though keep listening to boulez/schoenberg.
sorry, you're just filtered.
youtube.com
>muh String-Quartet 3
Sounds like a cat scratching its nail on board or a child urinated on a blank canvas.
Meanwhile Wagner -youtube.com
W.
>youtube.com
sorry, not as good as schoenberg's third string quartet.