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Late Romantic Period Composers
Bastardous Bassist:
Liszt's arrangements of Beethoven's Symphonies for piano are awesome. Not necessarily awesome to listen to (I haven't heard any of them, that I can remember), but awesome because they're a reduced score for a Beethoven Symphony, which is nice for studying.
--- Quote from: Mnementh ---more accurately referring to people like Smetana, Dvořák, Janáček, Liszt, and Wagner
--- End quote ---
That's a real interesting collection there. I wouldn't have necessarily put them together as being demonstrative of late romantic. I mean, they are most assuredly late romantic, but I don't think they're the really well-known/important names. Also, thanks be to D'vorak for starting an American school of concert music that didn't copy the German masters. Then we had people like Cowell come along with American Experimentalism, which is one of my favorite early 20th century movements.
Mnementh:
Ah, but you see, that was what I was aiming for, almost in an indie snob sort of way, for instance, Beethoven and Wagner produced some wonderful music, but everyone knows them and everyone listens to them. I want some variety.
I'm particularly fascinated by the Czechs because of the influence of local folk music on their work.
Bastardous Bassist:
What was mainly interesting was the Czech focus of the composers, which is also why I'd say they probably weren't really that indicative of late romanticism, as the most widespread effects were felt from the western European composers (French and German, most notably). D'vorak was heavily influential and important, but like I said, though, I'd definitely classify D'vorak as writing American compositions.
Borondir:
And the Czech composers weren't the only nationally oriented eastern composers of the Late Romantic. I think people like the Balakirev Circle are fairly important as well.
And I don't really understand how being an indie snob should apply to a discussion of the important Late Romantic composers, there's a reason Beethoven and Wagner are famous. Of course that doesn't mean we should neglect less famous composers, but Wagner is hardly the romantic equivalent of a spoiled pop star of today as far as musical ability. Popularity, perhaps...
Mnementh:
Borondir... I sald "almost in an indie snob sort of way." It's a goddamn analogy.
Analogy. A similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
Simply put, I wanted to bring up names that aren't the big names, something lesser known. In that sense, Beethoven and Wagner are old hat, not because they're any worse, but because most people have heard of them, ie... their popular. And I was using the Czechs as an example. As an illustrative instance if you will.
Stop being so dense.
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