I consider Bach to be a Baroque composer.
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CPE Bach was decidedly Classical, and was a fairly important composser.
Oh yeah forgot there were two of them. I am thinking of the famous organ pieces.
Dec 30, 2012
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rooperi wrote:
Geez, no Bach?
I think I've only heard his organ music, or maybe that's all he did, I don't know. I'm not a big fan of organ music. Reminds me of church.
trysts wrote:
rooperi wrote:
Geez, no Bach?
I think I've only heard his organ music, or maybe that's all he did, I don't know. I'm not a big fan of organ music. Reminds me of church.
Not only organ, he did have a thing for G Strings.....
Dec 30, 2012
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#87
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E
Is this quiet enough for you?
(I am proud to say that I can play this to concert standard!)
If I remember correctly, didn't Jon Cage write that one piece which sounds like if I lay my arm on the piano with the sustain pedal pressed?
I hated Bach because his piano pieces were very awkward and I played them as technique practices (and there are some musician nuts who insist that he is the greatest piano composer ever...ignore everything they say).
rooperi wrote:
Not only organ, he did have a thing for G Strings.....
Would've been better with pictures.
Conquistador wrote:
Procol Harum
Of course!
Dec 30, 2012
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#91
rooperi wrote:
Not only organ, he did have a thing for G Strings.....
I do love that piece. I'm just Bach-ignorant.
Dec 30, 2012
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#92
ludrah wrote:
fissionfowl wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E
Is this quiet enough for you?
(I am proud to say that I can play this to concert standard!)
No. Too much paper turning.
Then I suggest going to live in that room that John Cage visited where literally no sound can get in... But in it you can apparently actually hear your nervous system working so maybe that would be too loud as well. 
trysts wrote:
rooperi wrote:
Not only organ, he did have a thing for G Strings.....
I do love that piece. I'm just Bach-ignorant.
Cool. And organ's not that bad, this is almost ROCK!
Dvorak and Prokofiev are the tops on my list of classical composers. None of this church crap.
Church crap??? It's Bach... 
It's a joke... 
Thank God for that! You know I always agree with you, but I just couldn't this time.
I like Bach's pieces but they lack emotion for my taste. They are fanciful flourishes, like a figure skater compared with one of the great hockey players. The former exists in isolation, seeking mechanical perfection; the latter is embedded in the mess of reality, and extracts from this chaos, by force of talent and passion, an elegant and energizing performance.
Dec 30, 2012
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#99
rooperi wrote:
Cool. And organ's not that bad, this is almost ROCK!
For some reason, that piece reminds me of Vincent Price
I've been trying to think of a list for classical composers, and here's what I've settled upon(in no particular order):
Verdi
Debussey
Mahler
Dvorak
Arvo Part
Henryk Gorecki
Gershwin
Beethoven
Liszt
Bernard Herrmann
Geez, no Bach?