What YOUR favorite composer says about you!
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- čas přidán 12. 01. 2024
- Explore the fascinating link between your personality and musical tastes in this video: "What YOUR Favorite Composer Says About You!" We delve into the connections between classical music and personality types, decoding the unique traits associated with popular composers like Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin. Feel free to share your go-to composers in the comments. #classicalmusic
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✍ All explanations and names of the used pieces: pastebin.com/1EeMug9M
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🎶 Names of the pieces:
Bach - Suite No. 3: II. Air
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 [4. mvmt]
Mozart - Symphony No. 35, “Haffner” [1. mvmt]
Brahms - Symphony No. 1 [1. mvmt]
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 [4. mvmt]
Händel - Music For the Royal Fireworks
Wagner - Die Walküre, Akt III: Walkürenritt
Chopin - Nocturne No. 2
Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1: II. The Death Of Aase
Liszt - Liebestraum No. 3 in A-Flat Major
Schubert - Schubert Serenade
Mahler - Symphony No. 5 [1. mvmt]
Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 [1. mvmnt]
Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
Stravinsky - The Firebird - Finale
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 [2. mvmt]
Haydn - “Kaiserquartett,” No. 3 in C Major [2. mvmt]
Mendelssohn - Songs without Words, Op.19b, No. 6
Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 5 [1. mvmt]
Schoenberg - Suite for Piano op. 25: VI. Gigue
Dvorak - Serenade for Strings in E Major [2. mvmt]
Debussy - Clair De Lune
Sibelius - Symphony No. 1 [1. mvmt]
Bartók - Music For Strings, Percussion and Celesta [4. mvmt]
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene II: Dance of the Knights
Clara Schumann - 3 Romances, No. 1, Andante
Holst - The Planets No. 4: “Jupiter"
Barber - Adagio for Strings
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
Saint-Saëns - Les Carnaval des Animaux - 7. Aquarium
Lalo - Cello Concerto in D Minor: 1. Prélude
Elgar - Enigma Variations, Theme
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: Concerto No. 4 in F Minor "L'inverno": 1. Allegro non molto
J. Strauss II - An der schönen blauen Donau
Georges Bizet - Carmen Suite No. 1: “Toreador March”
Verdi - Dies Irae
R. Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Prelude
Smetana - The Moldau (From “Má Vlast”)
Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 3 [4. mvmt]
Hindemith - Mathis der Maler Symphony: 1. Engelkonzert
Scriabin - 24 Préludes, op. 11: No. 14 in E-Flat Minor
Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1
Respighi - 6 Pezzi, No. 5 Studio
Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee
Paganini - La Campanella
Puccini - La bohème, Act II: “Musetta's Waltz”
Borodin - Prince Igor, Polovetsian Dances: Moderato alla breve - Hudba
As an average Liszt and Chopin enjoyer I confirm I think piano is superior and that I couldn't play Liszt's pieces.
If you like Liszt I can suggest you Alkan, an amazing composer, who just like Liszt is not for begginers
Same
@@Capnight1fr agreed, Alkan is more fun to listen and play than Liszt
This is me
@@Paganini-Liszt how about we talk about Mr. Méreaux and his beginner pieces
I don’t think its superior. I just prefer it over anything else.
Very Chopinistic 😁
Yep me either
Me too!
@@xunyl87 Chopinionated
As a violinist, the piano is better
Vivaldi: You are either a metalhead, or you don't want to admit you are a metalhead internally.
That is what I like to say about Shostakovich.
Metalfagets putting their "metal everywhere" because they cannot accept metal is nothing special ✅
@@lapisinfernalis9052 And what I say about Prokofiev xD. I do not understand the Vivaldi one, I do understand shostakovich tho. Dude is metal af.
@@TFOLLT I rarely listen to Prokofiev, but his Dance of the Knights is not only Metal but Darth Vader.
@@saltygrilledcheese8321 Wait until you discover Pancrace-Royer...
"Chances are, you don't know a piece aside from The Planets"
How dare you say something that is absolutely true
The Perfect Fool - Holst
@@marie-ctunnicliff513thank you, I didn’t know this piece and it’s very beautiful !
A Holst Christmas
Dont ask
In the Bleak Midwinter
St.Pauls suite ❤❤
Tchaikovsky: you are a Disney princess.
You are a ballerina
I like Tchaikovsky very much, but I hate Disney. Disney (the franchise) wishes it were Tchaikovsky.
@@CaptainLysandra or a figure skater
Edvard Greig, rimsky korsakov, schubert more like
Tchaikovsky has a variety
*Barbie princess
RESPIGHI'S EXISTENCE WAS ACKNOWLEDGED. I CAN DIE HAPPY. FINALLY. BIG DAY FOR RESPIGHI FANS. THANK YOU.
I will never let the Respighi fam down! ✋
Who's respighi
@@Haakhin not much only one of the greatest orchestraters in all of classical music
@@HaakhinThe Pines of Rome…listen and come back. Or at least the ending
Same for Scriabin
Vivaldi's pieces other than the fourth seasons are so underrated
Vivaldi was a rockstar in my book.
L' Estro Armonico is a masterpiece.
I like both Beatus Virs the most, and Gloria.
Actually as a violinist I played a couple of Vivaldi's peaces and after a while they literally get boring. I liked for example Seitz or Haydn much more. But Vivaldi and Mozart are a very good start to listen to classical music with the kids. They are both melodic and easy to listen. Theye were considered "pop musicians" at their time :) I wish pop music would be the same quality these days...
The cello concertos are INCREDIBLE
I fell so in love with Beethoven as a teenager that I learned piano just to be able to play his music. Still my fave.
me but with Chopin. Cliche, it was Nocturne op 9 no 2 that made me fall in love with him and classical music as a whole, but it was His Ballade no 1 in G minor that made me believe, I had to be a pianist :)
@@JosephCriollo-zn4eoHave you watched “Your Lie in April”? I didn’t really like anime until I watched it, it has excellent piano and violin music, and the animation is awesome. However, it’s an emotional roller coaster and the last three episodes are very sad. There are a lot of Chopin pieces (including Ballade No 1, Winter Wind, Revolutionary Etude, Wrong Note Etude), the Rose Adagio/Waltz for four hands arranged by Rachmaninov, and Saint Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso…
your lie in april was extremely cringe and nonsensical. i hated when the japanese started shouting their hearts out while a piece is playing. also, the pieces that were used were too mainstream and normies only obsess over them. could've used many other lesser known masterpieces but didn't like what is moonlight sonata doing in a competetion?
@@katlover4442 yeah i watched it and it was amazing. A lot of people say they discovered Chopin’s first ballade from your lie in april but i discovered it in by youtube recommended. And i can’t express how i felt the moment i first heard it. Was going through something too, so being able to just dwell with that piece was beautiful. I was in love.
Same! Beethoven sonatas are the reason I'm into classical music today. He is my hero! It all started when I downloaded Pathetique, 3rd movement, from Napster!
As a drummer whose favorite classical composer is Chopin, I can confirm
I'm violinist and Chopin is my life 😂😂😂✨️
What is a piano except 88 pitched drums in a box?
@@gonzoengineering4894. A thing of beauty!
As a Rachmaninoff enjoyer I felt touched :)
rachmaninoff is so underrated, it's wild
@@somenormalpie I absolutely agree lol
@@somenormalpie how exactly is he underrated? His pieces are (rightfully) one of the most played.
@@gesh92 that's true, I just mean that he's not nearly as famous as Beethoven, tchaikovsky, bach, Mozart, Chopin etc. when I think he should be
Same
My dad likes Vivaldi because he likes metal. He told me Metallica was inspired by classical music and I thought of Vivaldi as being the most metal classical artist I could think of. So I showed him la follia and he loved it and now listens to Vivaldi casually.
Making converts! Bravo!
Yep many metalheads I know are the same with Vivaldi or baroque in general
That Debussy definition is so accurate 🔥
so true
Yup. No one else's music transports me to another place like his does.
Definitely ❤
@@Cowgirl_Bebop Ravel can do that as well....
Dvořák! Wonderful music (and he was some kind of a nerd of his time, because he had a huge interest in railway stuff).
I thought that was Honegger
Ring, Ring, Ring ... Do you hear that? It is a school bell, calling you back to history class (or maybe to the class "how to joke with esprite") @@margin606
I wondered where he was? Maybe a part 2?
Dvorak (don’t have time to get the accents) is my favorite composer. Literally listen to his symphonies on repeat!
Those accents are really hard, your are right. I really like the way, he is able to draw pictures in the minds of listeners with his compositions!@@Purpleninja7707
I’m a Mozart person, and such an intellectual that I fell in love with his music watching Bugs Bunny cartoons as a child😁
Touche!
That's where I first heard classical music as well lol
I always associate Liszt with Bugs Bunny
@@captainhoratiobungleiii7147me too
I actually prefer Haydn to Mozart in most instances...Haydn had such a vivid imagination.....
Chopin invites us to spend some time at the piano, showing us the beauty of life! All of these great composers are mountains to hike, rivers and rainbows to watch, and storms to feel the thunder. Thank you for showing me the sky.
I play Chopin to more fully share in his sublime emotions. I am currently learning the 4th Ballade. Some of it is beyond me. And yes, piano IS the most beautiful instrument.
Your reply is very poetic.
Probably the best comment I've ever seen as it relates to classical music and learning new pieces and perfecting them. You sir are a genius.
We love them all and we all have a multi personality disorder. We as in me.
That or at a young age we were taken to operas and symphonys. I was.
The paintings match the songs perfectly!
YeES!!!
That’s what I was thinking.
German = CDF
No they don't.
The image for Beethoven is famously used to represent Romanticism, yet Beethoven was a classical period composer.
Mozart lived a century or more before Napoleon.
@@listerofsmeg884 yeah, whatever
I'm just here for the free classical music
I'm absolutely vibing
Please do a Part Two, this was so fun! And Ravel, Chopin, Schubert, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky are my favorite composers on this list. Definitely spot on!
Yes, please add more!! Love the accompanying pictures...Britten?!
A Part II must include Vincenzo Bellini
And Janáček
And Telemann
And Khachaturyan
I AM BACH AND I AM NOT BORING I JUST UNDERSTAND HOW BRILLIANT MY MUSIC IS......🙌
Liszt is spot on
As someone who is a Liszt fan, this is true
For now
A day without Liszt is like (let me think ....) aha! A day without Liszt!
Atleast im trying 😢😢
I can play Liszt, but only in a very _unique_ interpretation.
Gershwin: “I moved to the big city and all I got were these JAZZ HANDSSSSS”
Cutting it off RIGHT before the chord resolution is perfect for the Stravinsky caption!
You missed my fav Ralph Vaughan Williams, so I'll do it for you, and a I have a few:
"You'd prefer to live your life inside a Studio Ghibli film"
"Cottagecore is the aesthetic you go for but you're just a forest gremlin"
"Can't we just have a picnic on the river?"
OMG, yes.
Certainly a big ommission, but you have fallen for the stereotype promoted by malicious friends of Benjamin Britten, that RVW was a tweedy conservative tearoom composer.
The 5th Symphony is absolutely sublime. During WW2, when London residents were spending their nights in the subway, it was comfortingly piped in through the sound system.
I feel unbelievably seen
real... until the rvw fan says their favorite symphony is the 6th.... or even better... the 4th
I dig almost all of them but Mendelssohn is really underrated.
I love Elijah so much
Hitler took his statue down?
residual antisemitism
First I was looking for the option in the video to be called boring and now for this one comment of appreciation
Mendelssohn....the composer of some of the most perfect music ever writtten
MAHLER, RACHMANINOFF AND LISZT!!! YESSSSSS (spot on)
+ Wagner
Perfectly explained Tchaikovsky fans (including myself)
Ludwig today, tomorrow, forever, since I was 3 years old lying on the floor listening to my mother playing the piano. He's my guy.
1:38
can confirm, I really couldn't play Liszt back when he was my favorite composer
Subtle flex
Everybody loves Liszt until they try to play his pieces
@@markanos1979I'm not a piannist but I think it also applies to Rachmaninoff.
@@jesustovar2549 It does on his harder pieces, and when it does its mostly because he had HUGE hands, tho i've had the luck to play a piece, and sight-read a few, it's generally not as hard as Liszt for most of them
At a certain point this video just becomes “What I say about these different composers”. Give Holst an actual chance.
Pretty hard to do such a thing as advertized in the title. So it just becomes mockery, nothing wrong with that.
Holst's band music is great tho
There's a song in there somewhere...
"Everybody talkin' 'bout Mahler, Mozart /
All we are saaa-ying is give Holst a chance..."
Yeah i haven't head anything bad or even mediocre from holst. He truly revolutionized film and video game music inspirations.
100% true fact.
Sadly, the real question becomes, "what did clicking on this video say about us?"
Lol now we’ve found the coping Holst fan 😊😂
I misses Scoot Joplin. You minha say he was ragtime, notreally classic, but I still admire his workshop as much. He is actually my favorite composer.
*work, not workshop
Agree and no Gershwin either.
Ragtime is considered a classical genre often I believe
I'm a head banger for Beethoven but I'm never been accused of having good taste. Great entertaining piece, loved it.
I can't help but head bang when I hear the final moments of the 9th.
I am a rare specimen 😊
As a fervent Handel fan, i think im a rare specimen. I think Handel needs more recognition and respect like his contemporaries,Bach and Vivaldi. Man was lit the favorite of the favorites, Beethoven and Mozart.
Agreed! He wrote some of the MOST glorious music for singers; I especially love his oratorios.
The Messiah, Water Music (written for royalty) 🤗
His Piano Trios are exquisite. Probably my "if you can only take one CD with you on this deserted island" CD is his Piano Trios #24, 25, 26 & 27, by the Beaux Arts Trio.
My nephew (6mos) stays still whenever I play Handel & looks for where the sound comes from. I hope he grows up loving classical pieces ❤
@@AdiSchwarz true purity. Even the baby is enamoured by the voice of Heaven, Händel is immortal
Extremely accurate. Satie, Saint-Saens and Debussy for me.
Same!
Not Ravel?
Interesting that you started and ended with music by Beethoven, which happens to be my favourite composer 😊
piano:
1. easy for beginners to progress compared to other instruments
2. harder to master because of hand coordination
3. suitable for any and every kind of music
4. biggest range out of all instruments
5. versatility of expression is simply unmatched
6. pianists are definitely more versatile musicians because we have to adjust to whatever instrument is in front of us, others can carry their instruments (excluding organists)
I don't think the piano is superior, the piano is just superior.
I also love chopin :)
Maybe excluding 4 and 6, this suits classical guitar just fine, and the guitar is way more versatile, portable, you can tune it yourself and its just better
@@luiznavas The guitar has its weaknesses, you can't sustain tones like on piano, nor can you have as large harmonies, a harmonic chord on guitar is way smaller than one on the piano, portable or not doesn't make much of a difference, however, pianists have to adjust to every single piano they are playing, for they are all different, while on the guitar you can just easily tune, while it comes close I can't agree its "just better".
I love the piano, but my fav composer isn't Chopin :D, I love the guitar too! If I ever have a chance to learn playing it, I would!
Everybody's fav instrument is superior in their mind
@@Capnight1fr Hahaha I was joking about it being "just better". I also love Chopin, his piano concertos dont get nearly the credit they deserve. I think we all can agree that the transcriptions for guitar of classics of the piano (specially Chopin) by Tarrega are one of the best things ever done in music then.
@@luiznavas the keyboards have hundreds of years of repertoire (and can play bigger chords)
My favorite composer changes all the time. I cycle through Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Mahler, Satie, Mozart, Chopin, Bach, Liszt, Beethoven, Paganini and most of the others. Never Haydn, lol. Right now Debussy is my main dude. Basically, if you can make me cry with your music, you're my new favorite. 🥰
If you like crying, don't forget Schumann.
If you want you can listen my music to see if it will make you cry ^^ (in fact i don't know if it's possible, but Un Fini Infini is the better for that I think, even if it's the less popular TT).
Schumann makes me cry, but not for the reason you're thinking.@@ichirofakename
Let's just admit you don't have a favorite. You're like that tomcat who wanders around visiting every house in the neighborhood, his "favorite" families. :)
But yes, never Haydn, I agree. You should try Clementi, and Sammartini's late symphonies (on CZcams).
@@talastra I'm a composer hoor, 'tis true. 😁
I love Satie,Saint-Saëns, Dvorak, Schubert, Bach and Mozart sm
What a terrific video for those who enjoy classical music. I chuckled at them all, secure in the knowledge that I have good taste (love Beethoven)!!
I thought this would be a trivial video but in fact it's a pretty solid whirlwind tour through really varied musical identities (albeit with some misses).
Would be interesting to see what the sound worlds of Mussorgsky, Gershwin, Sousa or Villa-Lobos say about their ardent fans. And throw in a Schnittke, Nancarrow and a Cage as wild-cards.
Gershwin would be like "either you're american, or you love Broadway and jazz, as well as classic Hollywood films and musiclas" which is my case tho I'm not from USA. Sousa, you're a patriot american, loves marches or you played in your High School Marching Band", Villa-Lobos "you're brazilian or latino at least, you love samba and caribbean rhythms".
Leo Ornstein is a good one.
@@jesustovar2549 for Villa-Lobos to be one's favourite composer they have to be Brazilian or Latino? lol
The Chopin one is so true I ain’t gonna cap 😭💀
Faurè: you are either a cellist, a flautist, or both
Hmmm . . . rig up a T-shaped device with clamps on top to hold the flute horizontally, with a bottom clamp for the underside of the neck of your cello AND you can play both!
I'd say Fauré's fans are melancholic people, judging from Trois Mélodies, Op. 7 - Après un rêve, Élégie, Op. 24, Pavane, Op. 50
could be voice too! but very accurate lol
The descriptions are on point! Excellent
I'm on team Purcell. Where's my snark?
Palestrina here
I'm on team purcell too. We play video games too much.
This is fun! Love to see your take on some early music: Josquin, Dufay, Morales, Tallis, Byrd-just to name a few.
TIELMAN SUSATO also.....
I am so glad this video exists. Thank you.
Love the humour in this video, excellent!
Well done. Insightful, educational, really beautiful artwork, and humorous!
Scarlatti: you believe the harpsichord is a percussion instrument.
Same for Alkan and piano
It is. there are just too many people who don't understand middle Baroque.
Rachmaninoff, Dvorak, and most importantly Satie.
I feel strangely happy from having watched this video. Thank you. C:
Really fun, and very thoughtful! And right on most of the time!
Chopin is my favorite composer. As a pianist, can confirm I think piano is superior to any other instrument. You really hit the nail on the head with that hahaha
A best of education music video with so beautiful signature music to show a great arts. Thank you for who is a smart editor!
That was lovely to watch.❤
This is brilliant, thank you!
I love seeing different perspectives on the favourite composer thing haha
This video is great, its much more positive than others like it
Thanks for some insightful pieces of music
i kept watching just to listen to many different pieces of music from many composers. nice
LOL. Very funny and uniquely creative. Thank you.
I must be an exception to the Holst enjoyers because his First Suite in E-flat is my favourite piece of his.
I like and am familiar with Holst's St Pauls suite for string orchestra... or are we talking about the same piece?
@@clavichordthose are different pieces
I like Beni Mora
I agree, the Holst one was a big miss. My personal favorite piece of his is Somerset Rhapsody.
@@clavichord Different. First Suite in E-flat is a concert band piece.
I feel thoroughly called out, thank you very much
I had no clue about so many of these. Time to go listen. Thank you 🎉❤
But you finished with my beloved BORODIN and the description was accurate 😅
@@lenkajf7816 No clue? Are you just getting into classical music? You have been missing a lot. GET TO IT , you'll be thankful you did.
@@FREDGARRISON I’ve been into classical music ever since I was 10. But still this video had so many new ones I never heard about. But altogether, of course I’m more than familiar with the genre :)
I unabashedly love Mozart (also Paganini and Vivaldi). I learned to sing by singing the notes to a lot of the piano pieces and some of the first violin parts in the symphonies. I think I know every last piece he ever composed.
As someone who’s favorite composer is Liszt, and also enjoys Chopin, I can confirm that piano is the best instrument and that I cannot play Liszts peices, but love to listen to them
My bucket list includes trying to get through Chopin’s “easiest” pieces, lol…
Scarily accurate but fun to watch and lovely to hear. Thank you
The opening was perfect. 😊
I really like the portraits of the composers….what an interesting looking lot they are. btw, for me it’s Bach, Beethoven, Mahler, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Sibelius, Wagner…actually all of them. Don’t like Schumann’s orchestral, but his songs are peerless. Love Haydn’s chamber music, not the symphonies so much. Thank you for this….now, Martinu, Ginastera, Berg, Copland, Suk, Britten, Vaughan Williams, Walton. etc etc
YES, Josef Suk......
mine is Chopin and it's accurate. also, thanks for putting the pieces in the description!
I was all ready to shake my head in derision,
but it was spot on with mine.
Keep on making those statements Barnum!
Nicely done, appreciate the humor
Damn that's my favourite of these kinds of videos so far, I like the idea of showing fitting artworks and the music of which I knew way too less sounded really good. I gotta check out some of these pieces...
Samuel Barber knew and told his mother at age 6 that he wanted to compose music...
Me coming to this video for song/composer recommendations
You have it spot on. Always loved piano, always loved Chopin.
Lured by the title, captivated by the art,,,
Saw Beethoven. I liked. I'm a simple man.
Have you ever seen Disney's THE MAGNIFICENT REBEL from back in the 1960s? It's a nice little story that has some actual facts in it. CARL HEINZ BOHM ( conductor Karl Bohm's son ) does an excellent job as Beethoven
Albéniz? Hello? “We just love beautiful music.”
You need Monteverdi for some more old music representation. He's basically Beethoven but for the transition to opera and Renaissance to baroque.
Super fun video! Missing two of my top faves, Glass and Pärt.
Sorry, I can PART with GLASS anyday !!!!! I'm the old romantic music type. Something with a "GOOD" melody.
8:34 !!! I was obsessed with Borodin recently and it actually frightens me that's exactly describing who I am. I never finish anything I start, even ideas… not mention 90% of my pieces only has 16 bars and I just left them their 😟
Bro all of these are fantastic XP
What fun! I love it!
please fix the scriabin one
- a die hard scriabinist
So what'd be your take on Scriabin as a die hard scriabinist?
Visionary who created his own theory of tonality
@@AstrusHD I think that Scriabin’s later work is very far from Chopin. He's gone too far... so I think "you were broken and felt all the emotions, now you've won but you're still thinking a lot" would be appropriate.
Scriabin: "you might want to chill a little bit before you go insane"
As a Beethoven fan I can confirm. My taste is pretty swell 😏
Same here 😊❤
As an artist some of the best times I've had in my studio was when I had consumed copious amounts of beer while working on a painting listening to Beethoven cranked up to max volume.
@@paulkicklighter5885 Glad it was the max on the BEER and BEETHOVEN. Isn't it nice they both begin with the letter "B"....... Both taste pretty good.
@@FREDGARRISON Amen to that.
Hey glad to know that Mahler fits my personality type, and it fits my instrument
That was absolutely hilarious!
As a Bruckner fan, I can confirm that I keep revising my novel.
No list has ever included Khachaturian and he is my absolute favourite
If Khachaturian or Ligeti were included on this list, my guess for the caption would be "you really like Stanley Kubrick movies". 😁
@@Siansonea good one
If I were the list maker and included Khatchaturian, I would've written "you are probably a Russian figure skater or someone who dreams to attend a masquerade ball someday"
@@sasstsuma1467 khachaturian was armenian tho
“ You probably picked out the background music for the jumping dog on the Ed Sullivan show“
Ngl this playlist is banging
As a rachmaninov fan I confirm, that I am quite adorable
I Love Ravel
Gesualdo - You have been known to hold a grudge.
Lili Boulanger - You don't get the recognition you deserve.
Medtner - You're a pianist but Scriabin is too mainstream for you.
I love Gesualdo's music but feel guilty about it.
Any opinion on Charles Ives?
We need part 2!
Well done!
as a chopin enjoyer. not quite, piano is just my favourite. i think saying that we are fragile as he himself was would fit more
Listening to Chopin, I can't help recall the lyrics to that old Roberta Flack song, Killing me Softly:
He sang as if he knew me
In all my dark despair
And then he looked right through me
As if I wasn't there
And he just kept on singing
Singing clear and strong
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song.
Chopin plays as if he knew me in all my dark despair, and kills me softly with his music.
I love how the Scriabin selection is the Eb minor sonata, one of the earliest works lmao if we go past opuses 30-40 it's a completely different story: you probably fantasize about the end of the world every day and is on the verge of madness
Bach is always my go to since I discovered his fugues.
As one who absolutely loves Handel , I really appreciate that you include him