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Irons

May 03, 2022, 07:46:41 AM
A single word that encapsulates a composer.

A few I can think of -

Elgar: Nobilmente.
Vaughan Williams: Elizabethan.
Beethoven: Angry.
Shostakovich: Ironic.
Myaskovsky: Stoic.
Mozart: Playful.
Haydn: Humorous.
Dvorak: Melodious.
Schoenberg: Uncompromising.
Rachmaninov: Romantic.
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

Maestro267

#1
May 03, 2022, 10:19:49 AM
Pettersson: Uncompromising

vandermolen

#2
May 03, 2022, 12:12:45 PM
Bax/Tubin : Legendary
"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).

classicalgeek

#3
May 03, 2022, 03:02:56 PM
Brahms: Autumnal
So much great music, so little time...

foxandpeng

#4
May 03, 2022, 03:26:11 PM
Tabakov - Existential
Vasks - Redemptive
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

LKB

#5
May 03, 2022, 04:39:10 PM
Bach: mathematical
Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen...

Mirror Image

#6
May 03, 2022, 09:04:30 PM
Isang Yun - yearning

LKB

#7
May 04, 2022, 12:09:57 AM
Mahler: human
Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen...

Irons

#8
May 04, 2022, 07:13:12 AM
Satie: Odd.
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

classicalgeek

#9
May 04, 2022, 08:12:21 AM
along the same lines as "Elgar: Nobilmente"...

Bruckner: Feierlich
So much great music, so little time...

Mirror Image

#10
May 04, 2022, 10:51:15 AM
A few more:

Bruckner - otherworldly
Ravel - crystalline
Gershwin - urban
Sibelius - silence
Shostakovich - paranoid
Liszt - showman
Schoenberg - liminal
Stockhausen - numbskull :P

Symphonic Addict

#11
May 04, 2022, 11:15:13 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on May 03, 2022, 12:12:45 PM
Bax/Tubin : Legendary

+1, above all Bax.
Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

Symphonic Addict

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May 04, 2022, 11:23:17 AM Last Edit: May 04, 2022, 11:24:51 AM by Symphonic Addict
Reger - stodgy
Delius - contemplative
Arnold - quirky
Leifs - earthy
Chopin - sentimental
Brian - messy
Dvorák - rustic
Brahms - refined
Valen - gloomy
Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

Mirror Image

#13
May 04, 2022, 11:33:10 AM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on May 04, 2022, 11:23:17 AM
Reger - stodgy
Delius - contemplative
Arnold - quirky
Leifs - earthy
Chopin - sentimental
Brian - messy
Dvorák - rustic
Brahms - refined
Valen - gloomy

Another good one for Leifs would be elemental. ;)

Symphonic Addict

#14
May 04, 2022, 02:19:46 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 04, 2022, 11:33:10 AM
Another good one for Leifs would be elemental. ;)

Quite so!
Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

classicalgeek

#15
May 04, 2022, 02:58:31 PM
Hindemith: busy
So much great music, so little time...

TheGSMoeller

#16
May 04, 2022, 06:20:30 PM
Quote from: foxandpeng on May 03, 2022, 03:26:11 PM

Vasks - Redemptive

Woah! No joke, I'm listening to his VC Distant Lights right now when I read this, in fact at about 4-5 minutes left in the piece, and it just changed my entire listening experience. Thank you for that! 

Mirror Image

#17
May 04, 2022, 06:25:12 PM
Stravinsky - impish

Symphonic Addict

#18
May 04, 2022, 06:33:44 PM
Janáček - peppered
Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

Mirror Image

#19
May 04, 2022, 06:40:08 PM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on May 04, 2022, 06:20:30 PM
Woah! No joke, I'm listening to his VC Distant Lights right now when I read this, in fact at about 4-5 minutes left in the piece, and it just changed my entire listening experience. Thank you for that!

Definitely a fine descriptor for much of Vasks' music, indeed.
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