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Top Ten Pieces of Music Written Before 1900
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| 12-05-01
| Pharmboy
Posted on 12/05/2001 7:02:28 PM PST by Pharmboy
Ask the question this way: If you were stranded on a desert island with a CD player and a good sound system, what ten pieces would you take with you that were written before the 20th Century?
My list:
1) Beethoven's Appassionata sonata for piano
2) Bach's Partita Number 2 for solo violin
3) Mozart's Symphony Number 41
4) Wagner's Overture to Tristan und Isolde
5) Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 131
6) Chopin's Ballade Number 4
7) Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (IMO the only worthwhile thing he ever wrote)
8) Schubert's Impromptus (all of them)
9) Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata
and 10) Bach's Mass in B Minor
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: music
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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator
To: Antoninus
Check out above about the Requiem. I agree. And, I couldn't decide on my Wagner choice between the Overture to the Meistersinger and the Overture to Tristan. I finally decided on Tristan, but you are also correct...IMO
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:29:30 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: Chi-townChief
Thank you for your last nomination, the Battle Hymn of the Republic. I was savoring it too, but it was so far off the list, I doubted that it would come up. Yet... performed well... it has more emotional power -- goosebumps! -- than anything else mentioned, except perhaps Ode to Joy. It ought to be our national anthem.
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:29:36 PM PST
by
T'wit
To: Revolting cat!
I tape New Years in Vienna on PBS every January 1st for the beautiful Strauss family waltzes and the panoramas of Vienna at holiday time.
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:30:40 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
To: Pharmboy
> I guess the Violin Concerto gets bounced.
You put that right back and bump something else!! :-)
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:31:02 PM PST
by
T'wit
To: Savage Beast
I guess I know where you get your name from...LOL! How clever of you...
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:31:09 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
Good choices. I would have to have some Mahler. His 9th is from 1910, is that close enough?
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:31:49 PM PST
by
ecurbh
To: Pharmboy
Was Mahler after 1900? If he was, I'll take everything Liszt wrote--especially the Liszt Sonata (but I don't think there's a recording of it--what do I do in that case?) --SB
To: johnboy
Well, we have two votes for Bach's Jesu, the Joy of Man's Desiring already. You folks have just given me my first Christmas present to myself...Virgin Records in Times Square tomorrow.
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:33:04 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: ecurbh
Yep--Mahler's Ninth is great. There is also a Bruckner Symphony (I can't remember precisely which one, but I think it's in D) that's quite good.
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:35:18 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
My taste is mostly in rock/punk/alternative, but of the few clasical tapes i play:
Bach -
Brandenburg
Toccatta & Fugue
Air on the G string
Jesu, joy of man's desiring.
Beethoven -
Ninth Sym.
Seventh Sym.
To: JCG
I'm not a big opera fan, but I did see that documentary from an earlier post of yours. Very frightening...
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:37:24 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
Sadly parodied so often in cartoons and such, Strauss's "Blue Danube" is still one of the most beautiful pieces ever written.
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:37:52 PM PST
by
Northpaw
To: dread78645
Dread, I think Kurdt Cobain was in the top 5 musical geniuses of the 20th century, so I imagine we share some favorites. May I respectfully recommend Mozart's Requiem (the last piece he ever wrote). Treat yourself.
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:39:36 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
My MY! What an un-PC list! All this music was written by "Dead White European Males."
I'am sure you have offended the East-Asian-African-Pacific-Islander-My-Dog's-Better-Cause-he's-Fed-Kenelration-American CROWD!
By the way....my vote is for:
Pachabel's Canon in D Major.
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:40:03 PM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: Pharmboy
Pre- 1900?
The first Ozzy l.p.?
To: SkyPilot
LOL!! Now that you mention it, that flute-like instrument played by the Andes natives is pretty good stuff. And, I'm sure it qualifies by dates. And, SkyPilot, where are the ladies??
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:42:39 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: Doctor Doom
I was thinking Aerosmith perhaps...but I think their first recording was in 1912.
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posted on
12/05/2001 7:43:52 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
FREEBIRD!!!!!!!!
Oh...sorry, I mis-read the question.
Most of the winners have been mentioned...I guess I would echo Beethoven's 9th, Tchiakovsky's "1812 Overture", and Handel's Water Music.
I'll also add Ravel's "Bolero" just to be different...
To: SamAdams76
Pretty good musical taste and choice, I stay mostly with anything by Bach and Mozart, could live without anything else.
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