Just in time for Halloween.
1. Scriabin
2. Liszt
3. Ravel
4. Tartini
5. Gounod
6. Boito
:). Nice.
Schnittke:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/ngmg/schnittkefaustrozhdestvensky.jpg)
Sarge
Schnittke, Liszt, Tishchenko, Gounod, Berlioz, Lili Boulanger, and I'm sure there are more.
Paganini. Wasn't he thought of as 'resembling the devil'.....back in the day? :D
Quote from: ChamberNut on October 26, 2013, 06:24:31 AM
Paganini. Wasn't he thought of as 'resembling the devil'.....back in the day? :D
No, the legend about Paganini was that he sold his soul to Satan, since people thought that was the only way he could play what he played. :o :P
Penderecki's opera The Devils, after Huxley. It's typically mild but has its moments.
So any composer who has written any piece referring to the devil, is obsessed, is that it?
(I ask only for information.)
Yes.
I am not obsessed with the devil however--I am in the midst of writing an oratorio about Phil The Prince of Insufficient Light.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Jean_Sibelius_1939.jpg)
His favourite interval was the tritone - does that count? And he's smoking - QED.
Watch out for dem tritones!
http://www.submediant.com/2016/03/15/citing-evangelical-faith-ted-cruz-calls-to-ban-satanic-tritone/
Quote from: karlhenning on October 26, 2013, 05:58:56 PM
So any composer who has written any piece referring to the devil, is obsessed, is that it?
(I ask only for information.)
I had forgotten this thread.
Was about to post something to much the same effect.
Glad to find I can simply quote a prior post . . . .
8)
Many a metal composer. :D
Eh, they're just pranksters.
Quote from: karlhenning on October 26, 2013, 05:58:56 PM
So any composer who has written any piece referring to the devil, is obsessed, is that it?
(I ask only for information.)
If so, add the composer of
L'Histoire du Soldat and
The Rake's Progress.
Quote from: Dax on April 01, 2016, 02:28:06 AM
Watch out for dem tritones!
http://www.submediant.com/2016/03/15/citing-evangelical-faith-ted-cruz-calls-to-ban-satanic-tritone/
I'd like to tie Ted Cruz down, wrap a bandana around his mouth, sit in front of him, and play tritones on my electric guitar ad nauseam. :)
Quote from: Mirror Image on April 01, 2016, 06:40:28 AM
I'd like to tie Ted Cruz down, wrap a bandana around his mouth, sit in front of him, and play tritones on my electric guitar ad nauseam. :)
Hold onto those little dreams! ;D ;)
Quote from: Mirror Image on April 01, 2016, 06:40:28 AM
I'd like to tie Ted Cruz down, wrap a bandana around his mouth, sit in front of him, and play tritones on my electric guitar ad nauseam. :)
Sounds kinky. Didn't know you were into teddy porn, John.
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on April 01, 2016, 09:31:08 AM
Sounds kinky. Didn't know you were into teddy porn, John.
If you think aural torture is kinky, then, yes, I guess it's 'teddy porn.' :)
Probably the tying up part was what was considered kinky.
(My first thought as well. >:D)
Vaughan Williams's 'Job' features music depicting the Devil. I would not describe him as obsessed with the Devil though. I think that the British composers Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) and Bernard van Dieren (actually Dutch) may have been involved in some kind of Black Magic/Devil worship group as was the conductor Eugene Goossens. Constant Lambert was a friend who said that the first movement of his ballet Hororscope was dictated from beyond he grave by Van Dieren. >:D
The devil is such an interesting character. I'm not religious or anything, but if I were to become religious, satanism would probably be my go to cult/religion.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Satan the only angel to stand up to the tyrannic God? That sounds terribly heroic.
I have no clue where they got the numbers from ;) but I think tradition holds that about 1/3 of the angels joined the rebellion.
As for whether this was "standing up to a tyrannic God", if you have not read it, I'd recommend Tolkien's take on it in his creation myth "The Music of the Ainur" in the Silmarilion.
Quote from: Jo498 on April 02, 2016, 05:29:07 AM
...I'd recommend Tolkien's take on it in his creation myth "The Music of the Ainur" in the Silmarilion.
Second the recommendation, although perhaps not for the same reason :) Melkor, the leader of the "rebellion" there, becomes Morgoth the Dark Lord, and does not get a sympathetic treatment. 8)
In more recent times. Lucifer is 1 of the 3 central characters/melodies for Stockhausen's massive LICHT cycle which occupied about 25 years of his life .. Lucifer's Dance from this cycle is a particularly amazing work (orchestral concerto) for a gigantic wind band, easily one of the greatest things of the 1980s and of his entire later output. Ligeti's Study No. 13 - The Devil's Staircase is a truly demonic piece .. one of the best!