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Late Romantic Period Composers
FeralCats:
--- Quote from: Kai ---I've never heard of him, but with song titles like Dryed up Human Embryos and The Dance of the Naked Spartans, as well as being mentioned alongside Zappa, I'm TOTALLY looking him up.
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Other fantastic titles (All which sound amazing)-
Jack In The Box (A Pantomime for Piano in 3 acts)
3 Distinguishes Waltzes
3 Pieces in Form of a Pear (Named after Debussy remarked that some of Satie's newer pieces 'lacked form')
Flabby Prelude to a Dog
Other innovative things Satie did-
First 'Muzak' (Though Satie called it 'furniture music', and his idea for it was far more idealistic, not at all in common with what we mean by the phrase today)
First film soundtrack
(In case you can't tell, I'm as big a fan of this guy as I am of Zappa...and that's freaking huge.)
Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: FeralCats ---(He wrote the first atonal piece, though it doesn't sound very atonal)
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Some would argue that the opening of "Tristan und Isolde" is atonal, as it kind of sidesteps functional tonality. However, I will certainly agree that Satie is probably the most important of les six, and at least as important as Wagner in the grand scheme of musical evolution.
As a side note, one of my friends is/was doing a project on Tailleferre as her thesis for her music history degree.
squawk:
Though I don't know all that much about classical music, I really like Frederic Chopin's works, he composed a lot of different works that are pretty well-known, plus some others. also I just realized the other day that Eric Carmen used Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto no. 2 for "All By Myself". that kinda annoyed me.
jcknbl:
Don't know as much as I should about classical music but Dvorak's 9th might be my favorite piece of music ever. Its also the reason behind my love-hate feelings torwards John Williams.
I also can't stand Wagner for some reason.
Borondir:
You're certainly not the only one who can't stand Wagner. I know plenty of very musical people with great appreciation of art music who just don't like Wagnerian opera.
The important thing is, whether its your personal taste or not, to acknowledge his absolute genius. (And of course also acknowledge his rather distasteful political views)
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