Vivaldi

Vivaldi has a very colorful taste to his peices. (as in songs practically) I have the cd that's called the "Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons"

any comments?

More cowbell

i'm not much of an expert at a lot of these people. i know only a few people, but who is cowbell?

LOL sorry. It's from an SNL skit.

Four Seasons is probably one of the most classic pieces of.. well classical music. However, I think most people get tired of it eventually and move on to Beethoven and Mozart before finding a particular style they like.

You should probably try some Russian classical composers, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev in particular.

I practically only Beethoven, Mozart, Urlio, and Bach that's all i know. I'd acually like something different but i don't know much.

who's that?

Never heard of Urlio, but the others are too soft for my taste (well except Beethoven but you can only listen to that so many times). Like I said, the Russians would be good to try. Dvorak or Brahms (my favorite) might also suit you.

I never heard of Urlio but when i heard my dad say the name, i memorized it and i found out he was a composer (i hope that's the right word)

how many people do you know?

Hmm, let's see...

Bartok: See Stravinsky.

Chopin: lots of nice upbeat piano bits (this is pretty much all he could or would do).

Mendelssohn: Similar to Chopin's style but with orchestras. Also kind of similar to Vivaldi.

Handel: Baroque stuff, basically Mozart + Bach + way over the top.

Stravinsky: It gets pretty crazy.

Wagner: the Ride of the Valkyries guy

J. Strauss: the Blue Danube guy

R. Strauss: not J. Strauss

I've heard of a few of these people you showed me like...

Strauss

Chopin

Handel

My dad has a radio in his car and has the classical music of almost everyone. I've heard him say like this piece is made from Strauss. you know something like that. that's how i can know people.

do you have any cds? Like at least Beethoven.

Use youtube.

Try some modern classics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQEAQS1GVRI

i love classics! i'll look at the youtube stuff later because i'm in a hurry.

Did anyone know that Beethoven was deaf? It was amazing how he did the songs!

what do you mean by MODERN composer?

i heard he was deaf when he had to compose music

yes he was deaf. you heard wrong. when he was composing music, he became deaf and died after a few years.

I am very glad to see other people who like classical music (but I guess it's not surprising since this is a Chess site).  My favorite period is Baroque, with Classical second. In fact, I am listening to the Chamber Baroque channel on Pandora right now. 

I am fortunate in that I was brought up with an appreciation of classical music.  However, I find it ironic that I didn't really fall head over heels for classical music until I started to get an earful of what passed for contemporary music starting in the 1990s.  So bad.  But today it is even worse.  We've graduated from barely competent "grunge" bands to kids who can't play an instrument to save themselves and can't hold a note without the help of software.  Even Country has begun to degenerate into some sort of soft rock (which is why I am increasingly drawn to Blue Grass.  As one Blue Grass radio station used to say:  "if you have to plug it in, it's not country." ). 

How much lower can it go?  The contemporary scene has rekindled my appreciation for the true musical genius of the classical era.

About Beethoven, not quite so sure, but it was tinitus that took his hearing, wasn't it?  And yes, for the record, he was not born hearing impared.  It was gradual, and it wasn't until his the final stage of his musical evolution that he became completely deaf (interestingly, this is the period that many of his most innovative compositions can be found in).

Personal favorites, classical music wise, would be Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Vivaldi, Romantics: Liszt, Grieg (Peer Gynt and his Piano Concerto), Berlioz (Symphonie Fantastique, if you haven't had a chance, check that piece out), and Tchaikovsky, and, in the Modern Period, Revel and Debussy.  Also Gershwin had some spectacular music: especially Rhapsody in Blue and American in Paris.

I need to listen to more Prokofiev.  All I've heard from him is Dance of Knights, which is spectacular, but I think I'd like to hear more before I'm completely sure.)

Beethoven not only was deaf when he composed most of his music (he began to go deaf in his early thirties but lived to age 57 and was writing almost to the end), but he conducted his own orchestral pieces and audiences laughed at him because he couldn't tell whether the musicians where playing pianissimo or fortissimo, softly or loudly. A tragedy. His late compositions, especially his Late Quartets are supreme examples of his art. He inspired his younger contemporaries (Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann) and is still renowned today for his introduction of "Romanticism" into classical music. I've played most of his chamber music pieces and love them.

i was only trying to tell everyone that he became deaf and your making a big deal about it. :(