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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
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: composers; favorite; music; teafortwo; vanity
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To: Reaganesque
"The wildwood flower" written by A.P. Carter and performed by the Carter Family and everyone else who ever took up the guitar. Leastwise picking that tune well is what every wannabe guitar picker has aspired to do, over the past 70 years or so.
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posted on
03/01/2006 8:41:37 PM PST
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Let's make government a liberal free zone.)
To: Reaganesque
Before I read the other nominations I'm pretty sure its "Cat Scratch Fever" By Ted Nugent. ;-)
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posted on
03/01/2006 8:41:46 PM PST
by
Tunehead54
(Nothing funny here ;-)
To: Reaganesque
My ding a ling, my ding a ling
I want to play with my ding a ling
My ding a ling, my ding a ling
I want to play with my ding a ling
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posted on
03/01/2006 8:41:55 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: HairOfTheDog
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posted on
03/01/2006 8:42:09 PM PST
by
clio morrel
(smoking is healthier than fascism.)
To: Bubbatuck
Beethoven's 9th, for me.
Hands down best!
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posted on
03/01/2006 8:42:32 PM PST
by
stig
To: daler
"On a Dark Desert Highway
Cool Whip in My Hair..."
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posted on
03/01/2006 8:42:34 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
To: Reaganesque
Oh, and I forgot...anything by Chopin and Tom Petty.
To: Tunehead54
How could we leave out the Nuge?! Cat Scratch Fever rules!
To: WeddingPlanner
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.
To: Reaganesque
Thomas Tallis' "Fantasia on a Theme"
To: Reaganesque
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Claude Debussy
Le Sacre du printemps - Igor Stravinsky
El Salon Mexico - Aaron Copland
Lincolnshire Posy - Percy Grainger
Symphonie Fantastique - Hector Berlioz
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (Lohengrin) - Richard Wagner
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
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posted on
03/01/2006 8:44:06 PM PST
by
Luis Gonzalez
(Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
To: Reaganesque
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posted on
03/01/2006 8:44:15 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: Lurking in Kansas
Dude, like, all those guys are, like, dead. Do you have any favorites that were, like, written after 1944?
Amahl and the Night Visitors, Gian Carlo Menotti, 1951.
And no, I am not going to humor you any further.
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03/01/2006 8:44:42 PM PST
by
SaveTheChief
("This one goes to eleven.")
To: Libertarian444
To: hole_n_one
You are truly a treasure at FR! ;-)
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posted on
03/01/2006 8:44:48 PM PST
by
Tunehead54
(Nothing funny here ;-)
To: Lurking in Kansas
Do you have any favorites that were, like, written after 1944?
You should check out Penderecki's symphonies. Don't be scared off by works like the Threnody for the Victim's of Hiroshima--he mellowed to become a top-shelf neo-Romantic. ;)
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posted on
03/01/2006 8:44:56 PM PST
by
Cyclopean Squid
(History is a work in progress)
To: CrazyIvan; sitetest
The Third Brandenburg Concerto, J.S. BachLooks like you two agree on something.
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posted on
03/01/2006 8:44:59 PM PST
by
Pyro7480
(Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
To: The Grim Freeper
I once heard Tom Petty referred to as "the butt-ugliest man in rock and roll." ;-)
To: Reaganesque
Mozart "Le Nozze di Figaro". There's NOTHING like it.
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posted on
03/01/2006 8:45:18 PM PST
by
Desdemona
(Music Librarian and provider of cucumber sandwiches, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary. Hats required.)
To: The Grim Freeper
Thomas Tallis, Spem In Alium.
Composed for QE 1st's coronation and performed by the Clarkes of Oxenford in the early eighties.
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