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From: Zionazi <marcs12212@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Taste update: Done with Bach and Schumann
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:24:46 +0000
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:59:28 +0000, Zionazi wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:24:50 +0000, Zionazi wrote:
>
>> Just chiming in to get this off my chest...
>>
>> so yeah, just like with a lot of other composers I'm done with them...
>>
>> Fav composers:
>>
>> 1) Mozart
>> 2) Beethoven
>> 3) Schubert
>> 4/5) Haydn/Brahms
>
> Just letting y'all know I'm done with Haydn as well... I think one can
> hardly listen to him anymore today... think about the shape of the world
> today... Bach is certainly better, but I don't like him too much... he's
> likely a master of counterpoint, and it's certainly sth which was
> unjustly forgotten during the homophonic style classical era, but I
> dunno... Mozart was still good... and as opposed to Haydn I think
> Mozart, Beethoven and also Schubert still have some bitterness... and
> they are not as dry as Bach... now hmmm Brahms... well... probably going
> to ditch him as well... sure he has counterpoint... but fucking hell...
> yeah no... I'm done with him as well... the only pieces of Brahms I
> still kind of have some interest in are his late piano pieces, the rest
> can be burned... so maybe add him to some of the *inspired composers
>
> so:
>
> 1) Mozart
> 2) Beethoven
> 3) Schubert
>
>>
>> Composers I feel are quite inspiring as well: Schönberg, Webern and Berg
>
> *add Brahms to these composers
>
> *quite inspired; and have interesting pieces... Schönberg (5 pieces for
> orchestra for example), Webern (5 movements for string quartet), Webern
> (Lyric Suite)...

*maybe add R. Strauss and Ravel here as well... I don't think of them as
highly I guess... but I still like to listen to them and think they have
some interesting works so ya... so it's

1) Mozart
2) Beethoven
3) Schubert

and: Brahms, R. Strauss, Ravel, Schönberg, Webern and Berg

cya laters