Your no. 2 composer

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Diletante

#40
March 06, 2012, 01:52:23 PM
Probably Beethoven.
Orgullosamente diletante.

Bogey

#41
March 06, 2012, 07:18:49 PM Last Edit: March 06, 2012, 07:25:13 PM by Bogey
Henning, Karl (Date of birth unknown ;D)

Seriously.  I gave this one quite a bit of thought....John Williams was my No. 1 (see that thread) for personal connections and reasons.  I put Karl here because I truly enjoy his music and he is the first composer I have met, which I think as DavidW puts it, complete coolness.  I discuss him with friends more than I do LvB or Haydn....etc.  It is fun saying that I am going to go see a work composed by him or to say we had dinner in Boston.  I bet a number of folks enjoyed dinner with a young Mozart and thought that was cool as well.  Same here.  Once again, a personal connection to a favorite, which I would not trade for any works by another artist (save Williams  ;)) on my shelf.  Time for some Mousetrap! The Passion According to St. John.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Christo

#42
March 07, 2012, 06:06:53 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 06, 2012, 07:18:49 PM
Time for some Mousetrap! The Passion According to St. John.

The Season is (almost) there. I know that many of us, me included, are going to play the piece again. Thanks for reminding.
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Karl Henning

#43
March 07, 2012, 06:39:38 AM
Thank you both, from the bottom of my heart.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Christo

#44
March 07, 2012, 06:48:35 AM
Van den Budenmayer.
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Bogey

#45
March 07, 2012, 04:22:45 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on March 07, 2012, 06:39:38 AM
Thank you both, from the bottom of my heart.

See Henning thread.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

TheGSMoeller

#46
March 07, 2012, 04:37:34 PM Last Edit: March 07, 2012, 04:39:25 PM by TheGSMoeller
Quote from: Christo on March 07, 2012, 06:48:35 AM
Van den Budenmayer.


Wrote some great music...or did he?  :-\ ;D

PaulR

#47
March 07, 2012, 05:50:09 PM
Probably Modest Mussorgsky at the moment

Bogey

#48
March 07, 2012, 05:52:39 PM
Quote from: paulrbass on March 07, 2012, 05:50:09 PM
Probably Modest Mussorgsky at the moment

That's a cool pick....not one you would expect to see.  Kind of like choosing Dukas....or Saint-Saëns.  Just cool composers that never get enough run, IMO.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

PaulR

#49
March 07, 2012, 06:19:51 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 07, 2012, 05:52:39 PM
That's a cool pick....not one you would expect to see.  Kind of like choosing Dukas....or Saint-Saëns.  Just cool composers that never get enough run, IMO.
I have always loved the operas Khovanschina (Which I saw last night) and Boris Godonov, along with the song cycles, as well as the piano version of Pictures.  There is something about his musical language that attracts me to his music. 

I wonder what he would have produced if he didn't die as young as he did.

Fëanor

#50
May 25, 2013, 08:20:44 AM
Beethoven !!!

Shostakovich is my No. 1.

AdamFromWashington

#51
May 27, 2013, 01:11:24 PM
Right now? Schubert, probably.

NorthNYMark

#52
July 05, 2013, 03:15:24 PM
Right now I'll go with Bartok (haven't figured out how to add diacritics on a PC).  On another day I might choose Beethoven, however.
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