Your Top 5 Most Joyful Composers

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Mandryka

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

ritter

Good examples....and Verdi is another composer who one would hardly call "joyful".

springrite

It's true that everyone has his/her own definition of joyful.

Just imagine the answer to this Most Joyful Composers question from a masochist...  :P
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Brian

Quote from: springrite on October 14, 2020, 04:25:30 PM
It's true that everyone has his/her own definition of joyful.

Just imagine the answer to this Most Joyful Composers question from a masochist...  :P
Ha!! Did I ever mention the guy I knew in college who told us that Le sacre du printemps sounded like his ideal sex? I've never been able to listen to the piece without wondering if he ever succeeded in achieving his goal...

springrite

Quote from: Brian on October 14, 2020, 04:28:54 PM
Ha!! Did I ever mention the guy I knew in college who told us that Le sacre du printemps sounded like his ideal sex? I've never been able to listen to the piece without wondering if he ever succeeded in achieving his goal...
Are you sure that wasn't me???
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

DaveF

Quote from: some guy on October 13, 2020, 07:21:42 PM
But what really gives an artist joy is making art.
I would also say that any piece that's well done (or that engages a listener or two) is a cause for joy, a cause of joy, no matter what the subject. I can think of dozens, hundreds, of pieces that have grim or tragic or sad subjects that are a joy, a delight to listen to.

As Auden said in his Composer sonnet:

You, alone, alone, O imaginary song,
Are unable to say an existence is wrong
"All the world is birthday cake" - George Harrison

kyjo

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Karl Henning

Fie on me for losing sight of Nielsen
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

ritter

Quote from: springrite on October 14, 2020, 04:25:30 PM
Just imagine the answer to this Most Joyful Composers question from a masochist...  :P
Bernd Alois Zimmermann;D

springrite

Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Biffo


Brahmsian

Myaskovsky
Tchaikovsky
Smetana
Schumann
Mahler

:D

Jo498

Which Mahler strikes you as particularly joyful? There might be a handful of pieces (e.g. finali of symphonies 5 and 7) but overall it is not an adjective that comes to mind first when I think of this composer.
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Brahmsian

Quote from: Jo498 on January 05, 2021, 09:49:32 AM
Which Mahler strikes you as particularly joyful? There might be a handful of pieces (e.g. finali of symphonies 5 and 7) but overall it is not an adjective that comes to mind first when I think of this composer.

My listing provided in jest.

Mirror Image

Hmmm...my 'Top 5 Most Joyful Composers'?

In no particular order:

Dvořák
Martinů
Milhaud
Villa-Lobos
Bernstein

Rosalba


Symphonic Addict

Now I'm gonna be more rigurous in my decisions. But OK, here it goes:

Dvorák (I mean, this is unmissable!)
Haydn
Martinu
Nielsen
Prokofiev (yes, this was tough to add into!)

I think some honorable mentions must be taken into account:

Respighi, Mozart, Atterberg, Langgaard (I mean, exhilarating!!), and Braga Santos.
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