Hi guys! I have covered "Musette" from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (see: below). What is your opinion on the Notenbüchlein?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu9AET3hafo
Read more…Fabulous BBKing left us such valuable legacy. Thank you for the monumental thrill. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZfGCAZDyMs
Read more…A great composer you've never heard of. Hoyt Curtin was the house composer at Hanna-Barbera and wrote some of the most wonderful music ever written for TV cartoons. He wrote the theme song and incidental music for the Flintstones, The Jetsons, and mo
Read more…Ever since I heard "Una Mattina" in the movie "Les Intouchables" I became interested in composer Ludovico Einaudi. What do you think about his work? I think his work his simple, but effective. I wrote a blogpost about my opinion about his work:
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Share your opinion of this work with the Composers' Forum. I am especially interested to know if people find this form of tonal experimentation more palatable and attractive than Schoenberg's dodecaphony.
Alois Hába's Quarter tone opera in 10
Read more…Joseph Lamb is a composer you’ve never heard of, but he is considered to be one of the greatest ragtime composers of all time, up there with Scott Joplin, the undisputed king of ragtime. Joe became a ragtime composer because of Joplin, whom he greatl
Read more…This Italian composer, who I suspect most have heard the name of, but maybe are not that familiar with his music, is one of my favorite composers, and I will tell a little story about why.
In 1979, my high school got a grant from Apple Computers to i
Read more…Hey guys,
I really like the original songs composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
What do you think about his work?
I like his music so much, I have dedicated a blogpost to his work
http://nikosdriehuis.com/ryuichi-sakamoto/
And I have made two videos where I
So I am making a list for my youtube channel over the top ten most controversial composers. This list is for composers who are controversial due to their music, their ideas, or their actions. It includes composers who may not be controversial today b
Read more…Orpheus of Thrace may have been the greatest composer and musician in all of Western history. He probably was. None of the well–known ancient Greek philosophers or historians doubted his actual existence (with the possible exception of Aristotle).
Read more…The Possible Merits and Demerits of Pierre Boulez
I am reading a fascinating book called, “Boulez, Music and Philosophy,” written by Edward Campbell, and published by Cambridge University Press. A summary on the Cambridge U.P website says the autho
Read more…'Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893-1979) is typically acknowledged as a microtonal composer who spent most of his creative life in Paris and Germany developing his theories and "ultrachromatic scales." Before his emigration to Paris in 1920, he studied comp
Read more…Claude Bolling is one of my favorite composers. This French jazz/classical composer and pianist did a series of albums starting in the 70s, pairing himself with top-of-the-line classical musicians performing his original works which blend classical a
Read more…Can we disuss the music of the great Austro-Antarctican Amazonian composer, Franz Joseph Schummberthoven?
How many hives are needed to perform his Concerto for Bees ?
Why is the Symphonyoid for Discos Voladores still only performed on Tuesdays?
Read more…The wonderful American composer, heart of the Emerson, Lake, and Palmer band. I just came across a great orchestral version of one of his seminal works, Tarkus. A delight! Great energy, an original sound! http://youtu.be/ZeMYPQkVe6w
Read more…I became a composer because of the movie The Sting, which featured the music of the ragtime composer Scott Joplin, which I consider to be some of the most delightful music ever created. It is fun sounding and is a physical delight to play - it fits w
Read more…Like a particular composer? Want to talk about them? This is the place for you!
Read more…One critic has written,
'For me, Weinberg is the third great Soviet composer, along with Prokofieff and Shostakovich. His musical idiom owes a lot to Shostakovich, and indeed he used to describe himself as a "pupil" of the older composer, although
Read more…Hi,
I tried to create short descriptions for composers, that will characterize their sound: http://alch.strangled.net/cquiz/work/cdesc.php
This is an addition to CQuiz project (composer quiz).
I would be glad to know what is wrong in the table.
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