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Sorry Beyoncé, Drake, Rihanna - Mozart Had the Best-Selling CD of 2016
Newsweek ^
| December 8, 2016
| Laurie Chen
Posted on 12/08/2016 12:35:05 PM PST by nwrep
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To: nwrep
Mozart. Died in 1791. His music outsells the artists of today, 220 years later.
In 220 years, nobody and I mean NOBODY will remember Bouncy, Fake, or Banhanna. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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posted on
12/08/2016 3:08:37 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: johniegrad
This is not a bad deal BUT not as good a deal as I got on a similar set about 10 years ago ... everything composed by Mozart in about 130 CDs shipped to the door for $100.00. Ha! You think THAT'S a good deal? I got Mozart to come to my townhouse personally and premier a string duet with Paganini that he wrote for the occasion. And it only cost me the price of a tuna fish sandwich!
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posted on
12/08/2016 3:12:33 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: nwrep
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posted on
12/08/2016 3:13:54 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: discostu
There are formats available for download that are far superior to CD quality, but they make big files so most folks use a higher compression algorithm than CDs which kills fidelity. I bought and downloaded the latest Radiohead when it was released a few months ago. For a few extra bucks I paid for the highest fidelity, which was some insanely high bitrate (can't recall right now what it is).
The bitrate was so high, iTunes couldn't recognize it and I had to lower it considerably (down to 2304 kbps 48 kHz) before it was playable on the old iPod. Still sounds amazing.
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posted on
12/08/2016 4:02:16 PM PST
by
Skooz
(Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
To: Gamecock
Did you know that Mozart died while he was writing The Requiem? Yeah, everyone knows that; it was in Amadeus.
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posted on
12/08/2016 4:16:21 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: tellw
“With Mozart you really have to get up to K. 400 and above for the music to get really interesting.”
Think about that.
The final number is K620something.
620 published works. Some of them are Operas well over an hour long. Symphonies of 4 movements, and the 4 count as only 1 K(ochel) number. The 4 movements are just 1 of the 620. The 27 Piano Concertos . . . 3-4 movements each. Each one well over an hour long.
And he died at 35. No computers with music composition tools. He had his brain, a piece of paper and a quill pen to dip in inkwells. Look at those numbers above and think about how many times that quill pen was dipped and how many notes were put on the paper.
We’re talking about inhuman productivity. Even the folks who “prefer someone else” know what those numbers mean.
So here we are 220 yrs later, and there he is.
Want to jaw drop a bit more? The first 120 of those years . . . no recordings of any kind. The pieces of paper, when read by those who could read them . . . they understood. They knew. That’s why he’s here at 220 yrs.
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posted on
12/08/2016 4:27:46 PM PST
by
Owen
To: IronJack
To: GoldenState_Rose
We are so hungry for spiritual and cultural revival! A rising tide lifts all ships.
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:03:59 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: johniegrad
Why, because I like tuna fish?
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:04:33 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: Gamecock
Did you know that Mozart died while he was writing The Requiem? Death imitating art?
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:05:42 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: johniegrad
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:15:21 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Gamecock
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:17:26 PM PST
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: johniegrad
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:21:42 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Sam Gamgee
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:22:24 PM PST
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: IronJack
MMmmmm Tuna fish sammich ☺
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:24:32 PM PST
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Charles Martel
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:29:02 PM PST
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: stephenjohnbanker
My favorite Japanese anime this season is the new comedy ClassicaLoids, which features Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and other classical composers as layabouts in a boarding house. Each week features the composers’ compositions in animated MTV style music videos (remember those?). The show is being simulcast in the US on Crunchyroll free with a one-week delay.
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:29:23 PM PST
by
Gideon7
To: Gideon7
Have you seen
Your Lie in April?
Excellent soundtrack (split into two CDs - one with the original compositions and the other with the classical pieces featured).
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posted on
12/08/2016 6:48:13 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: nwrep
Beyonce is just a black Taylor Swift.
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posted on
12/08/2016 7:07:48 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
(Gatlinburg wildfire: over 1000 homes and business damaged or destroyed.)
To: Charles Martel
Have you seen Your Lie in April? Yeah, that's a good one. I also liked Nodame Cantibile.
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posted on
12/08/2016 7:47:16 PM PST
by
Gideon7
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