Your One and Only Soulmate Composer

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Marc

#20
February 15, 2020, 10:18:16 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 15, 2020, 05:31:54 AM
Using this thread, we can come up with a GMG Favorite Composers list:
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Not sure if soulmates and favourites are the same.

Personally, I don't even know if my favourite composer (Bach) is also my One and Only Soulmate Composer.
When I read Florestan's intro, the latter might well be Mozart.

"The one and only composer whose music, no matter how familiar or how new, unfailingly touches and stirs the deepest recesses of your soul..."
That's Bach for me.

"The one and only composer whose music you feel encapsulates the whole gamut of human experience, from the darkest despair to the most exhilarating joy and everything in between..."
That's a tie between Bach and Mozart for me.

"The one and only composer whose music you feel to be the most humane, companionable and life-affirming..."
That's Mozart for me.

So: I'm not gonna vote on this one. :blank:

Florestan

#21
February 15, 2020, 10:23:25 AM
Quote from: Marc on February 15, 2020, 10:18:16 AM
Not sure if soulmates and favourites are the same.

Personally, I don't even know if my favourite composer (Bach) is also my One and Only Soulmate Composer.
When I read Florestan's intro, the latter might well be Mozart.

"The one and only composer whose music, no matter how familiar or how new, unfailingly touches and stirs the deepest recesses of your soul..."
That's Bach for me.

"The one and only composer whose music you feel encapsulates the whole gamut of human experience, from the darkest despair to the most exhilarating joy and everything in between..."
That's a tie between Bach and Mozart for me.

"The one and only composer whose music you feel to be the most humane, companionable and life-affirming..."
That's Mozart for me.

So: I'm not gonna vote on this one. :blank:

Great post!
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ." — Claude Debussy

San Antone

#22
February 15, 2020, 10:37:24 AM
Updated total, including Marc's non-vote  ;) :

Bach (2.5)
Mahler (2)
Beethoven (2)
Vaughan Williams (1.5)
Mozart (1.5)
Schubert (1)
Berlioz (1)
Wagner (1)
Debussy (1)
Miakovsky (0.5)

Marc

#23
February 15, 2020, 10:38:16 AM
Quote from: Florestan on February 15, 2020, 10:23:25 AM
Great post!

Roughly said: Bach comforts me, Mozart understands me.

Quote from: San Antone on February 15, 2020, 10:37:24 AM
Updated total, including Marc's non-vote  ;) :

Bach (2.5)
Mahler (2)
Beethoven (2)
Vaughan Williams (1.5)
Mozart (1.5)
Schubert (1)
Berlioz (1)
Wagner (1)
Debussy (1)
Miakovsky (0.5)

Well, all right then. ;)

Florestan

#24
February 15, 2020, 10:50:42 AM
Quote from: Marc on February 15, 2020, 10:38:16 AM
Roughly said: Bach Mozart comforts me, Mozart Schubert understands me.

That's it, fixed.
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ." — Claude Debussy

Marc

#25
February 15, 2020, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: Florestan on February 15, 2020, 10:50:42 AM
That's it, fixed.

Schubert also understands me quite good, but sometimes I think: come on man, get yourself together.

(That's my problem with the 19th century...)

And with Mahler I always feel the need to phone him and give him my therapist's number.
He did have a chat with dr. Sigmund though, in the Dutch (yes!) city of Leiden.

Florestan

#26
February 15, 2020, 11:25:36 AM Last Edit: February 15, 2020, 11:29:45 AM by Florestan
Quote from: Marc on February 15, 2020, 11:12:30 AM
Schubert also understands me quite good, but sometimes I think: come on man, get yourself together.

I'd happily get drunk with Schubert. Schumann as well. Tchaikovsky goes without saying too.   :D
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ." — Claude Debussy

Christo

#27
February 15, 2020, 12:05:43 PM
Quote from: Florestan on February 15, 2020, 11:25:36 AM
I'd happily get drunk with Schubert.

Of course you do. #whowouldntwithSchubertorSchumann #beingdrunkalwaysbetterthanplaytheirmusic  :-[
... 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

Symphonic Addict

#28
February 15, 2020, 12:11:04 PM
I think the drunken one might be another.  :-X  8)
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied.

Christo

#29
February 15, 2020, 12:16:08 PM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on February 15, 2020, 12:11:04 PM
I think the drunken one might be another.  :-X  8)

You? #really?  ???
... 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

Symphonic Addict

#30
February 15, 2020, 01:41:13 PM
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied.

vandermolen

#32
February 16, 2020, 08:50:23 AM
Quote from: The new erato on February 15, 2020, 10:26:12 PM
Shostakovich

He rates very highly for me too.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

amw

#33
February 16, 2020, 07:07:45 PM
Quote from: Florestan on February 14, 2020, 01:30:29 PM
The one and only composer whose music, no matter how familiar or how new, unfailingly touches and stirs the deepest recesses of your soul...
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

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The one and only composer whose music you feel encapsulates the whole gamut of human experience, from the darkest despair to the most exhilarating joy and everything in between...
Franz Schubert

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The one and only composer whose music you feel to be the most humane, companionable and life-affirming...
Ludwig van Beethoven

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One and only one, please!
Robert Schumann.... I guess.

Unlike almost any other composer, listening to Schumann is like looking into a mirror. I empathise with his musical tastes and decisions in a way I can't with most others; we are moved by the same things and have the same weaknesses. Which I guess is a bad sign, considering that he was insane, and made a number of highly questionable life decisions.

Florestan

#34
February 16, 2020, 11:56:13 PM
Quote from: amw on February 16, 2020, 07:07:45 PM
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Franz Schubert
Ludwig van Beethoven
Robert Schumann.... I guess.

Unlike almost any other composer, listening to Schumann is like looking into a mirror. I empathise with his musical tastes and decisions in a way I can't with most others; we are moved by the same things and have the same weaknesses. Which I guess is a bad sign, considering that he was insane, and made a number of highly questionable life decisions.

Nice post.

The last part of it is scary, though.


"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ." — Claude Debussy

Christo

#35
February 17, 2020, 10:15:07 AM
Quote from: amw on February 16, 2020, 07:07:45 PM
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Franz Schubert
Ludwig van Beethoven
Robert Schumann.... I guess.

All dead, very.  ???
... 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

Florestan

#36
February 17, 2020, 10:27:46 AM
Quote from: Christo on February 17, 2020, 10:15:07 AM
All dead, very.  ???

I don't get your point. All composers nominated so far are dead.
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ." — Claude Debussy

Christo

#37
February 17, 2020, 03:25:52 PM
Quote from: Florestan on February 17, 2020, 10:27:46 AM
I don't get your point. All composers nominated so far are dead.

Yea. Yet not so very.  :D  #mostdeadcomposers
... 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

Symphonic Addict

#38
February 17, 2020, 03:27:49 PM
Quote from: Florestan on February 17, 2020, 10:27:46 AM
I don't get your point. All composers nominated so far are dead.

The important thing is that they're alive in our hearts.  :)
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied.

Mirror Image

#39
February 17, 2020, 04:11:48 PM
Quote from: Christo on February 17, 2020, 03:25:52 PM
Yea. Yet not so very.  :D  #mostdeadcomposers

What? ???
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