Works least typical of a composer

[orbital]

- Chopin's 1st sonata. He might be young but it is after La ci darem la mano and Rondo A la mazur, and probably a year or so before the first mazurkas

- DSCH Jazz Suites. Pieces that made many a casual listener to get more of his works only to be shocked in awe, asking the question in the title to themselves

- David Bowie - Let's Dance   

[karlhenning]

- David Bowie - Let's Dance

Okay, but in this case, A Good Thing! 

[Lady Chatterley]

Schoenberg's cabaret songs

Yes,and Dimitri's Tea for Two.

[Mark]

Yes,and Dimitri's Tea for Two.

Good call.

[karlhenning]

Well done, Muriel (and d/b/a as "Tahiti Trot," no less)

[Lady Chatterley]

Well done, Muriel (and d/b/a as "Tahiti Trot," no less)

Oh yes,now I remember.

[MishaK]

Brahms German Requiem

Huh? Just how is that atypical?

[karlhenning]

Huh? Just how is that atypical?

Large-scale sacred choral work.

[Mark]

Large-scale sacred choral work.

But it still sounds Brahmsian, does it not?

[karlhenning]

But it still sounds Brahmsian, does it not?

Oh, indeed;  like none other.

[BachQ]

Bruckner's solo piano compositions ........

[orbital]

Yes,and Dimitri's Tea for Two.

I tought that was just an arrangement of an anonymous-famous melody 

[Harry Collier]

Elgar's cello concerto. 

What? Did he write two? The only one I know (E minor, Op 85) is 100% typical, dyed-in-the-wool Elgar.

[Don]

requiem-mozart
middle movement from winter-vivaldi.  It sounds like a modern 20th century sort of "sound collage" piece.

What's not typical of the Mozart Requiem?

[Kullervo]

What? Did he write two? The only one I know (E minor, Op 85) is 100% typical, dyed-in-the-wool Elgar.

Seconded. It's probably the one Elgar work that sounds the most like Elgar.

[Kullervo]

Atypical in that it is trite. The track is called 'Reactionaries', btw....  0:)

However, it has at least the merit of disproving the case of those who say Cage (etc.) couldn't write this sort of thing if they wanted to!

Sorry, I was being silly.  I have heard some of Cage's early (relatively) conventional music. His Dream is actually pretty attractive, albeit in a Brian Eno Music for Airports musical wallpaper sort of way.

[greg]

Large-scale sacred choral work.

not only that, it's the only thing he ever wrote that includes a harp

[karlhenning]

Hadn't considered that before, Greg.

How French of Brahms 

[Keemun]

What? Did he write two? The only one I know (E minor, Op 85) is 100% typical, dyed-in-the-wool Elgar.

Nope, he only wrote one.  My reasons for nominating it are purely subjective. 

[karlhenning]

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