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What Is the Greatest Musical Work of All Time?
3/1/2006
| Reaganesque
Posted on 03/01/2006 7:54:55 PM PST by Reaganesque
I was sitting here tonight listening to Mozart's Requiem and I got to thinking: what do I consider to be the best work of music ever? For my part, Mozart's work really does the trick for me when I need to be re-energized. Therefore, I believe that his Requiem is the greatest work of all time. There just isn't another work that is as powerful and passionate. When the chorus sings the final "Amen" at the end of "Lacrimosa" I get the feeling that he knew it was the last thing he would ever write. It gives me chills at times.
Other favorites are:
Handel's Messiah
The 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky
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KEYWORDS: composers; favorite; music; teafortwo; vanity
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To: Reaganesque
Hawthorne Muchachos - 1974 Malaguena
Hawthorne Caballeros - 1976 - Flamenca Cha Cha
Bill From Nutley (Drum corps rocks).
To: Reaganesque
When it comes to truly great music i first think of symphonies and among my favorites are:
Schubert's 8th, Tchaikovsky's 6th, Bruckner's 8th, Beethoven's 3rd, Mozart's 25th & 41st
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:20:45 PM PST
by
Humbug
(sorry but i lost my tagline and can't find it anywhere)
To: Reaganesque
You are very knowledgeable and you are doing a fine job.
Great thread!
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:20:47 PM PST
by
Supernatural
(Lay me doon in the caul caul groon, whaur afore monie mair huv gaun)
To: Washi
Hungarian Rhapsody #2 "Mama....
Just Killed a Man
Put My Gun against His Head
Pulled my Trigger Now He's Dead..."
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:20:54 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
To: SaveTheChief
Amahl and the Night Visitors, Gian Carlo Menotti, 1951. And no, I am not going to humor you any further.
LOL, okay, fair enough. Have any favorites written in your lifetime??
To: ItsForTheChildren
Ha Ha! No one interprets music like Shatner. No one!![](http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000089JE.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Oh, now, I wouldn't say that...
To: generally
For my nonclassical contribution, I would add Dream Theater--Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:22:17 PM PST
by
Cyclopean Squid
(History is a work in progress)
To: Radix
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:22:23 PM PST
by
MistrX
To: Reaganesque
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:22:34 PM PST
by
mugs99
(Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
To: flushed with pride
"
Okay, I'll give you that. Had FM lived he would surely have been knighted. And we would be referring to him as Sir Freddy by now."
Um...I just joined this thread.
You're not talking about Freddy Fender, are you?
I think he's still alive.
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:23:07 PM PST
by
daler
To: Humbug
Bruckner 8 is huge. The coda to Movement IV gives me chills.
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:23:51 PM PST
by
Cyclopean Squid
(History is a work in progress)
To: mugs99
Boots Randolph is a musical immortal?
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:23:58 PM PST
by
daler
To: daler
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:24:14 PM PST
by
Supernatural
(Lay me doon in the caul caul groon, whaur afore monie mair huv gaun)
To: Reaganesque
Chopsticks. It is timeless and irritating.
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:25:11 PM PST
by
AndrewC
(Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
To: mugs99
Benny Hill has much to atone for.
To: beaver fever
Excelent.
But no Beethoven's 9th.
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:25:30 PM PST
by
MistrX
To: AndrewC
To: All
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:25:37 PM PST
by
justt bloomin
("Political correctness is really the only form of hate speech." Mike Adams, UNC-W)
To: Reaganesque
in addition to yours:
New World Symphony - Dvorak
Hungarian Rhapsodie #2 - Liszt
Loehngrin - Wagner
Enigma Variations - Elgar
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:26:02 PM PST
by
Mygirlsmom
(You can either despair that the rose bush has thorns-or rejoice that the thorn bush has roses.)
To: Reaganesque
I have Mozart's Requiem in my CD player now and it's been there for a while. Unlike virtually every other piece of music, I can listen to it over and over and I never get tired of it. It's strange.
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