Bach, Beethoven, Brahms ( & Mozart ? )

@Ruixa, if you look through the thread you'll see it covers a lot more composers than just the four in the title. Which is a good thing, since anyone who composed a list of the great composers and left out Tchaikovsky would deserve to be shot.

Two of my favorite pieces by Prokofiev and Giazotto, by the way. Elliot Goldenthal is a new name for me.

Thanks for the post TheronG12.   ---   Found another great piece over on Youtube, again with Andre Rieu. This was the Second Waltz ( Russian Waltz ) by Shostakovich. I truly do luv the waltzes, they are like beautiful paintings in motion and they make me feel happy.  

Today it is the turn of Franz List to be mentioned in this thread ( for 1811 ). 

I've been hanging around over at Youtube again. Bumped into Andre Rieu and Laura Engel ( the singer  lol ) doing " Besame Mucho ", a nice performance.

Thanks for the nice post Kaynight. I'm afraid that my interest in the Arts is rather limited. For example if I ever went to the Ballet I would probably fall asleep in the first 5 or 10 minutes. I do like some Opera ( I mean that Enrico fellow was quite a singer  lol ). Music is however my main field of interest, and so I started this thread.  

Good point Kaynight, when I happen see them doing that on TV my feet start to hurt  lol.

Well there is a term that I have not used at all, so far ( lol ). 

Another trip over to Youtube and Andre Rieu. This time the orchestra was doing " The Beautiful Blue Danube ", a nice long version running over 8 minutes, very nice ( I luv a waltz ). 

On the previous page I mentioned the Schneewalzer ( Snow-Waltz ) and earlier today I saw Andre Rieu with his JSO doing their version of that beautiful music. Yup I was over on Youtube again, and as I've said before: nothing beats a nice waltz.  

When I stated a list of birthdays I didn't have anyone in November. Now there is a important fellow we can list for Nov 18th ( in 1786 ). The great Carl Maria von Weber is our man.   

Thanks for the post Kaynight. Yes maybe he was a distant relative of the von Trapp family  lol.

Getting slow on the draw here. Yesterday ( Dec. 8th ) was Sibelius Day, going back to 1865.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zg_af9b8c

When Biafra tried to become independent from Nigeria they thought Finlandia was so well Finnished that they adopted it as the national anthem.

Thanks for the new posts.   ---   Today we need to think back to 1803 and come up with the name of a man   ---   Hector Berlioz is the man ( for Dec 11th ). 

Now I'm stumped. I know the name Berlioz but I can't remember anything he wrote.

Thanks for the posts. I was just over on Youtube looking around and there is a fair amount of music over there by Berlioz. A very nice lively shorter piece of his is the " Roman Carnival Overture ". One thing that I just learned is that there is a YouTube Symphony Orchestra, that is a new one on me. The performers seem to be mainly young adults, possibly University music students and they do play very well.  

Well we come to the last birthday boy on the list for this year and he is the one and only Ludwig van Beethoven, Dec 16th, 1770.

I have an idea I posted this in this thread before. Oh well, it's good enough to post twice, and what could you find better for Beethoven's 245th birthday? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgHxmAsINDk

He must be decomposing at that age.