Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

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foxandpeng

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March 19, 2025, 11:47:09 PM
Quote from: Der lächelnde Schatten on March 19, 2025, 07:37:55 PMHis music is filtered through this kind of grim-tinted prism and sometimes I'm just not in the mood for it.

What's not to love? 😁
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Christo

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March 20, 2025, 12:40:16 AM Last Edit: March 20, 2025, 05:39:51 AM by Christo
Quote from: Der lächelnde Schatten on March 19, 2025, 07:37:55 PMVaughan Williams and Sibelius, admittedly two different kettle of fish, have a more streamlined approach to the symphony --- no question about it. I love both of these composers for this fact and also how they offer a completely different view than so many other composers who came before them.
Amen. Both freed the air, so to say, for all who came after them. In Sibelius' case that is: most Scandinavians, but also John Kinsella and Douglas Lilburn, to mention but two. In RVW's case these are mainly his "pupils," among them exemplary symphonists like Stanley Bate and Ruth Gipps (my all-time favourite composer by now). :-)
... 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

foxandpeng

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March 20, 2025, 03:06:20 AM
Quote from: Christo on March 20, 2025, 12:40:16 AMAmen. Both freed the air, so to say, for all who came after them. In Sibelius' case that is: most Scandinavians, but also John Kinsella and Douglas Lilburn, to mention but two. In RVW's case these are mainly his "pupils," among them exemplary symphonists lake Stanley Bate and Ruth Gipps (my all-time favourite composer by now). :-)

Kinsella and Lilburn. Good call. I like their music very much.
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy
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