A topic saloon for talking about Classicism lesser known composers as Leopold Mozart, Michael Haydn, etc.
I have been trying out a little Clementi these days, and liking it. Everything I have heard by Franz Danzi has been worth hearing. Hummel is a very underrated composer indeed, but a lot of his best stuff is a bit later. Wagenseil is interesting for sure as is Schobert. Or are they too well known for this thread?
Anyway it is interesting hearing the rest of the sounds ape in which Mozart and Haydn lived. I listened to an oldies station in town that played nothing but forgotten fifties music for a day. It fleshed out Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis indirectly. Same thing.
Pretty much everything by Anton Reicha written in the first decade of the 1800s is worth hearing, same with Jan Ladislav Dussekâoften willfully experimental, suggestive of directions the Romantic era might have taken but didn't.
What is wrong with posting in Gurn's Classical Corner? Why do we need a new thread?
Well, tek-nuck-lee, the Classic period is 1750-1800.
Were there composers still working in Classic form/style in 1820? Sure.
But Romanticism was well on the way by the beginning of the 19th century.
Just wondered.
I am now recently fond of listening to classical music. I like the one of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and I adore Michael Haydn above all cuz his melody is the best of best for me :)