AMERICAN REACTS TO TOP COMPOSERS OF ALL TIME FOR THE FIRST TIME! (BEETHOVEN, BACH, MOZART & MORE)
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There was a good film called Immortal Beloved about Bethoven starring Gary Oldman
Oh - forgot you don't care for the harpsichord, but Domenico scarlatti sounds fine on piano, too.
Try Pavarotti Nesun Dorma, greatest tenor ever.
I'd recommend Beethoven's 8th piano Sonata. Puts Moonlight in its place. He himself considered C# Sonata not as great as people made it to be, his 1st, 8th, 21st, 23rd sonatas are known as masterpieces by experts, but, sadly, not the majority of public.
Top three composers are Chopin, Beethoven, and Bach.
If you have the opportunity to hear Bach's Tocccata and Fugue played in a proper church, at a huge church organ, by a skilled organ player - this is an experience that doesn't quite compare to anything. Although listening to that piece with headphones can be intense, too.
Toccata and Fugue leads me to believe that. Bach was the original metal Head. A shredder if you will.
@@sollatzo well, a powerful church organ with many huge bass pipes would make the ultimate Metal instrument - if only it wasn't completely impossible to take to concerts.
That's something people don't grasp: these composers were the rock stars of their day. It is not entirely accidental that a lot of modern metal music works spectacularly well with a full orchestra. See Metallia's S&M albums.
His Passacaglia & fugue is even better
As a metalhead, Bach's toccata (or passacaglia!) played in a large cathedral is the real deal. This dude is the great grandfather of metal and rock!
I am a musicologist, therefore my opinion might be a bit biased when I say that this video is extremely superficial. It doesn't even scratch the surface of what these musical giants were and the musical moments are the most well known, most common place ones.
It mentions stuff like "melody, harmony, counterpoint" without letting you know what it means by that.And while melody is commonly understood, harmony is more or less guessed, what counterpoint is, that's not common knowledge.
Each and every one of the names mentioned is worth a lot more attention than that. If you feel like delving more deeply into what the music of these people has to offer, let me know, let me know who would you begin with and I will send you links with both information and relevant music, as well as give you the details. It's my job after all and I always do it with great pleasure when someone is interested in finding out more about this world.
Wagner number four, Indeed ! What a world, what a world..
I dont think anyone was expecting a deep dive in classical music or a deeper analysis, so chill😅
Honestly idk much about classical music but knowing watchmojo i had a gut feeling that this was the case
@@paulozavala3232 😀
@@mina_en_suiza I am still not sure about Mozart.
But it's a bit like, who is your favorite Beatle?
I'd most likely answer George Martin😉
Classic is the Music genre
Baroque, Romantic are time perriodes,
Medieval (c.1150-c.1400) ...
Renaissance (c.1400-c.1600) ...
Baroque (c.1600-c.1750) ...
Classical (c.1750-c.1830) ...
Early Romantic (c.1830-c.1860) ...
Late Romantic (c.1860-c.1920) ...
Post 'Great War' Years (c.1920-Present)
Thank you! I forget not everyone would know that.
And there is also a term "Early music" which is music from time periods of medieval, renaissance and baroque.
Yes, Beethoven was deaf - but it starts in the age of 27 with problems, he was completely deaf with 48, so he could imagine the music - but only because he was genius. His disease had a great impact on his character and music. He was not a easy person and you could hear his fury in a lot of his compositions.
Is inner ear wasn't affect so i could ear from contact , so he used a hardwood stick he put it in mouth and the other point in the piano so he could actually ear what he was doing
@@brunobastos5533 👍 yes, and some of this are in the collection of the Beethovenhaus in Bonn near by. After 200 years it is hard to say how bad it really was or whats the reason ( lead poisoning from cheap wine ??? ). But what he could hear was quiet sure not good enough for himself ! He was very unhappy. On the other side all composers have to imagine what there music will sound like - they have a piano in their house but in the opera there will be a 100 Person orchestra, a lot of singers and a choir ...
@@brunobastos5533 for a while, for sure. But he did end up going completely deaf-including the inner ear. So he composed the ninth symphony (including Ode to Joy) without being able to hear any of it.
Beethoven was absolutely
*completely* deaf when he composed his later symphonies and pianoworks
He also put a metal plate in his piano on which he would bite to hear the sound that way
When Beethoven conducted his 9th Symphony in public for the first time, as it ended and he was facing the orchestra, he couldn't hear the audience applause. He had to turn round to be aware of the ecstatic reception it was receiving.
He couldn’t hear anything at that point. Completely deaf. Poor mate wanted to conduct the orchestra-but that can’t be done if he’s completely deaf.
So the orchestra was instructed to ignore him, and instead follow a different conductor. Beethoven was still “conducting” when the audience was applauding. Hence one of the musicians had to stand up and turn him around.
Beethoven wasn't deaf all his life, just in the end. Hi well knew how it did sound, and music is also a well portion of mathematics, so he could do his last works so well.
@@henrikhaas6980 Yes It’s mathematics, but one also has to remember note progressions and how they sound in relationship to one another when you are writing. I’m sure that he could recall most of those sounds in his head from memory. It is still amazing though, to be able to hear all the melodies, harmonies, tempo, etc. at the same time just in his head is astounding.
When eminent biologist and author Lewis Thomas was asked what message he would choose to send from Earth into outer space in the Voyager spacecraft, he answered, "I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach." After a pause, he added, "But that would be boasting."
Baroque is the name given to the artistic and cultural epoch during the 17th and partly 18th centuries. The epoch is universal, that is, it exists in music, visual arts, literature, etc.
The period before the Baroque is called the Renaissance (15th-16th century), the period after that is the pre-classical and classical period (ca. 1730-1830). In a narrower sense, "classical music" refers to this period. In a broader sense, however, all epochs of "serious music".
This is followed by romantic era and modernity. However, all epochs can be further subdivided.
The streamer didn't understand that. I hope she takes it seriously. Greetings from Portugal
I guess you can only understand Baroque when you know about the 30 years religious war 1618-1648 which devastated Central Europe - in wide parts of Germany the population at the end of the war was 40% smaller than at the beginning!
The rich, lush language of Baroque was an answer to the horrors of that war. People tried to rebuild and literally 'danced on graves'... It was an element of celebration of life after a period of death.
And - i would always put Bach over Beethoven (and i think Beethoven would have agreed 😉)
Vivaldi1 bach aburre
The classical period is generally considered to start at around 1750.
There would not be a Beethovens 9th without Bach.
Without Bach there would be no modern composer at all
And no Bach without Johann Pachelbel…
We all stand upon the shoulders of giants.
@@claesblom "i'll see you in hell, Pachelbel!"
@@thanossnap4170 I wish I could meet Pachelbel, but I think we're both too good for hell. maybe we can meet in heaven?
Never tought I would hear Bach being compared to a indie stage act :)
Or Beethoven compared to Beyonce, for that matter! 🤣
@@DataLal😂
So touching to see this girl realize there are different periods in classical music! She's a tabula rasa. It's all new to her.
11:00 That Instrument isnt a piano. Thats a harpsichord. Pianos play by hitting the strings, harpsichords play by plucking them...like a harp.
Right. The piano was a very new instrument in Mozart's time, though he wrote a lot for it. But also for harpsichord, of course, the instrument of his childhood together with the violin.
While I understand why given the competition I kind of wish that Grieg had made it onto the list...
He's probably the most well known composer of my country that's from anywhere near that period...
Music to do unmentionable things to your wrist to
Beethoven had hearing issues since he was 27. At age 48 he couldn't hear anymore. His experience in music and composing since then made it possible to continue composing without hearing it.
10:39 That's not a piano. It's a harpsichord (the predecessor of the piano), where the mechanism plucks the strings instead of striking them. Hence the different colour of sound.
And yes, Beethoven is great but Bach (along with Mozart) is the greatest of all time to me.
And the harpsichord (Cembalo) sounds great in Golden Brown too czcams.com/video/NNACikbchFM/video.html
I prefer Beethoven myself but to each their own.
And no peddles
contrary to your assumption while Brahms' Hungarian dances are mentioned, Hungary is in Europe and all these composers are european.
Antonio Vivaldi - Italian from Venice
Franz Schubert - Austrian from Himmelpfortgrund(today part of Vienna)
Johannes Brahms - German from Hamburg
Georg Friedrich Händel - German-British from Halle(Saale)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Russian from Votkinsk
Frédéric Chopin - Polish from Zelazowa Wola
Richard Wagner - German from Leipzig
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mostly considered Austrian from Salzburg because Salzburg is today part of Austria but back then was technically independent
Ludwig van Beethoven - German from Bonn, though Austrians like to claim him for themselves because he did most of his work in Vienna*
Johann Sebastian Bach - German from Eisenach
*there's a joke that the Austrian's biggest achievement ever is to make the world believe that Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler was German, when it was actually the other way around.
Beethovens mother was Croatian. Marija Magdalena Keverić. In Bonn, but Croatian.
Yes, the label „classical music“ is a bit confusing, because it does mean two things: On the one hand, when we talk about „classical music“ we mean European style art music (as „opposed“ or at least distinguished from „popular music“). Of course there is also Chinese or Indian classical music etc. But when we say „classical music“ we usually mean European style art music (European „style“ because ist doesn't just come from European composers; there are also American, Japanese etc. etc. composers who wrote and write classical music in the European style.) So „Classical music“ can mean European style art music from let's say the Renaissance up until today.
Within Classical music there are different periods like Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern, Contemporary.
What makes it a bit consfusing is the fact, that on the other hand, there's a „classical period“ WITHIN „Classical music“ - roughly ranging from about 1750 to the 1820s with composers like Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert (while Beethoven and Schubert may also be considered as two of the pioneers of the „romantic period“, which followed after the classical period of Classical music).
I kinda miss Italian opera composers in that list - Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, at least someone. But can't agree more to the top 3.
No Vivaldi!!!
Rossini is underrated
Viva VERDI
Beethoven was not born deaf. He was suffering from an illness that increasingly deprived him of the perception of sounds. Then, when he was almost deaf, he concentrated on composing music. While other composers wrote work after work, Beethoven wrestled with each note and had to keep touching it up until the symphony was complete.
Magnus
The 'piano' you didn't like is acually a harpsicord or virginal. These have the strings plucked controlled from the keyboard whereas a piano 'hammers' the strings.
Most notable omission from the list is Franz Liszt, IMO. Maybe even Johann Strauss... but we can get only 10 in top 10 :)
Exactly my thought.
Side note. It's amusing how there's this double standard around of classical music being kind of far away from the average person.. ...
Then you might have your washing machine playing Schubert (ok the average person likely doesn't have that shiney new machine), the waiting line music, the replays in commercials... and, if you're 30+ and German, you might still sing Brahms's Lullaby or at least you grew up on it...😉
Thats kinda crazy bc my Samsung washer and dryer do little jingles when they are done with each cycle! Never realized it was classical 🤯
@@FavourInternational Don't ask me how they came up with the connection of a happy little trout in a clear stream - and how it's caught- and washing clothes........😅
You should react to Moldau, by the chzech Composer Smetana.Although I am German, and we truely have have great Composers, this is one of the best music, ever written.
Ma Vlast is possibly Smetana's best-known work, and worth a reaction - as are Borodin and Dvorak.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 Dvorak over Smetana, the new world symphony is magical
Wagner's mythological works were performed in a purpose-built theatre that used all the most up-to-date 'special effects', where the stage could be in the clouds, underwater, or even transform in scale, to reveal what the Rhine maidens were doing down there, or how the Valkyries were flying up to Asgard.
If you’re ever interested in going deeper into classical, or want to get a a bit of a taste of it, I’d recommend reacting to TwosetViolin, more specifically the lists they sometimes make about different pieces, if you want a spiritual piece I’d recommend Mahler’s 2nd symphony (it is an hour - an hour and a half long but the finale can be found separately on yt too)
classical music put simplistically refers to music written in an traditional, more formal way. A symphony is a longer piece of music for an orchestra. A sonata is usually for a soloist with some other instruments while a concerto is for a soloist but with the orchestra. Every year in the UK, we have a season of concerts for classical music (with occasionally some jazz or show music) that is known as 'the Proms'. If you like classical music it is great.
There are loads of great classical composers that were not in this list of course. But love your reaction to the introduction to classical. To kill two birds with one stone, go to the ballet (the Nutcracker [Tchaikovsky] is a really easy introduction for example) where you will get to hear both traditional classical music and modern classical music while watching another art form in the dance.
Bach was sort of unknown in his lifetime in the 1700s, but his work was found 200 years later because of the utter genius of it. He was a master of, among other things, counterpoint, two different melodies playing at the same time that enhance each other in almost magical ways. Lots of songwriters of today borrow from Bach or admit that his music inspires them. I agree that he should be no 1.
Baroque was a style of architecture, art and music which started first around 1600 in Italy, at the end of the 30 Years' War (1618-1648) also in Germany and France. It superseded the Renaissance; regarding music it introduced the Concerto (instrumental music, often w/o vocals), introduced the chromatic system of Dur (=minor scale) and Moll (=major scale) and new instruments. It was followed by the Classical Period (1750-1825) and then the Romantic Period (1825-1900).
8:05 Chopin was born 1810 in the Duchy of Warsaw, a truncated Polish state founded by Napoleon (from regions which were occupied by Prussia, Austria and Russia since 1795) to a French father and an Polish mother. That Duchy became in 1815 "Congress Poland" ruled by the Russian Tsar as King of Poland. Chopin composed his first pieces in Warsaw, but emigrated in 1830 (for political and personal reasons) to France. He died in 1849 in Paris, probably of pericarditis aggravated by tuberculosis.
9:20 The picture shows stage tricks from his opera series "The Ring of the Nibelung", probably from the second opera, the Valkyrie (based on Norse mythology, where a Valkyrie (lit. chooser of the slain) was a warrior daughter of God Odin, which guided souls of dead brave warriors to Valhalla). Richard Wagner was not only much in Norse mythology, but also avowed anti-Semite, which made him (half a century after his death in 1883) a favorite of the Nazis.
10:55 That is not a piano, but a harpsichord or cembalo. A piano (or pianoforte) uses little hammers to struck the string, while a cembalo plucks them (like playing a harp). I like the sound, but it needs getting used to for our ears accustomed to modern sounds.
13:15 Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, the residence of the Elector and Prince-Bishop of Cologne and Münster, who sent him 1786 to Vienna to learn composition with Mozart, but it is not documented if he ever met Mozart then. In July 1792 he met componist Joseph Haydn, an older friend of the then late Mozart, traveling back from a concert tour in England, who Invited him to Vienna. In November he went to Vienna to study with Haydn. He never went back to Bonn, since his alcoholic father died some weeks later, and in 1794 French troops occupied the Electorate. In Vienna he drank often cheap white wine, which was often sweetened with cheap lead acetate (lead sugar) instead of regular sugar. Long after his death his bones and hair were examined - at least at the time of his death he had extremely high lead levels.
14:55 Bach influences still to this day. Have e.g. a look at czcams.com/video/xwYEl0kkhsE/video.html, czcams.com/video/EHXeCxi_lIw/video.html, czcams.com/video/WsWCSL3-Zdg/video.html, czcams.com/video/pKYCPk-JZoU/video.html or simply czcams.com/video/Oz1lYc3NfoM/video.html (Leipzig, Swinging Bach, presumably from the Bach Festival in the year 2000)
Malher, Listz, Smetana, Dvorak, Grieg, Haydn… Music isn’t obligatory in USA, obviously.
Its Liszt
Keep on your classical journey and ill keep watching!
A concerto is a piece for a solo instrument with an orchestra accompanying it. The solo instrument (for example a violin or a piano) usually has a very difficult and virtuosic part.
Thanks for respecting the music and not immediately labeling it as "boring" like some would! If you want to explore classical music more, maybe react to some female composers and their life stories. Some of them are sadly almost forgotten and in general it was much more difficult for them to assert themselves, because composition was seen as a typically male profession.
Like *most would
@@chiranthanr3163Either they don't understand what going on or they're pop music kids
@@Opuss55 yea pop music is basically "the same thing repeated for 3 minutes straight"-Eddy Chen
Sound (including music) is merely the vibration of air. Whilst Beethoven GRADUALLY went deaf, he knew what an e flat sounded like. After he went completely deaf, his genius allowed him to string together sounds that he could "hear" in his head, and write it down. Whilst sitting at a piano, he could rest his head on the top of the piano and feel the vibrations, and knew what would work. What is just as remarkable is his amazing compositions when he was 12. A musical genius if ever there was one.
Classical music is the music genre, but it is divided in time periods: [Medieval], Renaissance, Baroque, Classical (Wiener Klassik), Romantic and 20th Century. The music in this time was very different from each other. Btw my top 3 composers are Johann Strauß II., Claude Debussy and Johannes Brahms; but I really like all i know.
I don't have a favorite I think, I like them all, I DO have a favorite piece I love to listen too though, it's from Mussorgsky and it's called "Pictures at an exhibition".
11:57 - concerto - literally, a gathering [as in the word "concert" or "concerted"] - but in the periods being considered here normally means a 3-movement piece where there is one or more soloist instruments with orchestral accompaniment. This is to be contrasted with a symphony, which is a carefully-structured 4-movement work for full orchestra.
A definition of 'classical' music I like: 'music so good it's still performed hundreds of years later'.
What is believed to be written music has been found on clay tablets dating back 4,000 years: 'The Hurrian Hymn', it's here on youtube.
The time it comes from and the style are often named, 'medieval sacred music', 'plainsong', I particularly like the music played with Shakespeare plays, as they always ended with a 'Jig' or fun / comedy dance. The actor who invented some of these dances is the original 'nine day's wonder' as he, for publicity, danced for nine days from city to city in Britain back then.
youtube has 'Shakespeare end of play jig' for example.
11:03 because this is not a Piano it is a Harpsichord. In a Piano the strings get hit by a hammer, in the Harpsichord they get plucked.
Just as some men of science stand on the work of others to create new breakthroughs, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart etc, used, built and created new styles of music! They all wrote what was playing in their heads, in full musical scores!
If you think about it will modern music that is popular, ever be as complex, or written (sometimes the composers just sat , writing their complete scores as easily as you would write a letter!) so well that it will be played 200 years from now!
OH, the harpsichord was the main keyboard instrument, till the piano became popular during Beethoven's time!
symphony nr 9 is the official european anthem btw
Bach was first chronologically, inspiring all who followed. I recommend any of his five Brandenburg Concertos as easy to listen to gems, simple, but complex. A concerto by the way is a musical composition fearuring a solo instrument or group of instruments as the lead player. It would be listed as a flute concerto or a Trumpet concerto for example. When it comes to the musical form of counterpoint. Bach wrote the book. Literally. When I learned piano I used a book Bach wrote to teach his wife. beautiful short pieces in all the keys. A happy man with twenty children most turned up as musicians. Yes, it does bogle the mind to realize Beethoven was deaf when he wrote his most magnificent works. He heard his music inside his head, and put it on paper for the world to hear. He conducted his last symphony and had to be turned around to see the audience applauding. I disagree with the Mojo list.
Bach is the most recessive, backward-looking composer ever, even for a baroque one. He was outdated even while he was still alive. He didn't change the future of music, at all. BUT without his son Carl Philip Emmanuel, and also Haydn, things would have been different. They invented sonata form and modern symphony. Because they were innovative, unlike JS Bach. Sorry but you need to understand this.
Bach wrote 6 Brandenburg concertos, all amazing pieces that draw the listener in through their sheer vitality, rhythmic drive, mastery of counterpoint and harmonic and melodic inventiveness.
Recessive music. Concerto is an old italian form, what's the fuss about ti.
@@Alix777.My favorite is Beethoven but man that bach guy was ahead of his time his style is extraordinary he was the absolute master of melody harmony fugues and counterpoint, he did stuff none could have done like tell me one other than bach who could improvise a 6 voice fugue? His two WTK books are probably the most brilliant works of harmony and counterpoint which mozart Beethoven and other great composers studied, he was loved and appreciated by them I believe in them not in some dude with Patrick bateman pfp crap
Los conciertos de Brandemburgo de Bach de hecho fueron inspirados en los conciertos de Vivaldi. De hecho Bach hizo transcripciones de los conciertos del veneciano. Lo mismo hizo handel y telemann, .así que en teoría el primero fue Vivaldi.
Beethoven is my #1, too. He wrote the most hits and changed music forever. Writing his greatest music while deaf is a massive flex.
If you can make the Ninth Symphony without being able to hear you are truly the greatest ever
I would not rate one of them over another. They’re all geniuses. Some of them had more time to develop their music, others died young. And there are arguably many others worth considering them to put on this list like prokovieff, Verdi or johan Strauß if you like waltz… at some point it’s about personal favors. Also during the Time from renaissance till the 20th Century a lot of instruments were invented. So Mozart had to use the cembalo, because there was no piano there at this time. The cembalo can not be -payed loud or silently - it has just one level of loudness. So he had to live with the limitations of the instrumental variety of his time. This is even more true for Bach, who lived even earlier
They are periods in time. Baroque is 1600 to 1750 so anyone composing during those years are considered to be of the Baroque period. Classical period is approximately 1730 to 1820. There is some overlapping of the years.
A concerto is a work with a small ensemble playing with a larger ensemble such as a full symphonic orchestra, or a soloist playing with a full orchestra.
While Beethoven was deaf, it was due to issues with his ears, and not neurological, so he composed near the end of his life by biting on a piece of metal attached to his piano (technically the predecessor to a piano) to hear the vibrations. He wasn’t as deaf as people say until the very end of his life.
9:00 Looks like a theatre production, I assume they're the Valkyries the song is about... They are mythical females, usually on flying horses, and take the fallen warriors to Valhalla
Actually its wolves. Valkyries ride on giant wolves. But yeah, mostly its depicted as flying horses.
The wigs can be compared to Roman togas, only to be worn on occasions that are "fancy or prolific".
Bach often put his own name in this compositions. You will find the notes b a c h in there. But this are the german names what we call h you call b, and what we call b you call b flat (I think)
don't tell such BS. there is no "h" in muscial notes as it ends in G. I know because i was in the symphony and played tons of music.
@@Johnadams20760 in germany the notes are called: c d e f g a h c... I play an Instrument too, so i know that in german we call one note h
@@Johnadams20760 just delete that hahahaha
Tchiachovsky, Beethoven and Bach have always been my favorites, but since I've been getting my 6 mo old to sleep with orchestrated music, I've really come to appreciate Vivaldi more. So has my son! He loves the Four Seasons! And Tchiachovsky's 1812 Overture. That's not even scratching the surface! I will say, though, Beethoven, specifically his 9th symphony, has my heart.
Classical terminology:
Baroque: classical period from 1600-1750
Classical: classical period from 1750-1820
Romantic: classical period from 1800-1900
Concerto: an orchestral work with a shining soloist.
Bach: The best composer.
The beginning of the musical Baroque period is marked by the introduction of the continuo in Claudio Monteverdi's compositions. The use of the continuous basso continuo characterizes Baroque music as well as the music of the subsequent transitional period, the Rococo. A possible further subdivision, but one that can only be considered approximate, is:
Early Baroque (about 1600 to 1650), under Italian dominance;
High Baroque (about 1650 to 1710), with significant French influences;
Late Baroque (about 1710 to 1750), with a tendency to unify regional styles.
Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel are often considered the consummators of the musical Baroque. Among the Bach sons and their circle, the so-called empfindsamer Stil (sensitive style) established itself as early as the 1730s, leading through the pre-classical period of the Mannheim School to the Viennese Classical period with Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Beethovan wrote his 5th symphony in response to learning he was going deaf. Hence the 4 notes are the knocking of fate at the door.
beethoven was not born deaf
The clanky piano is called a harpsichord - the strings are plucked rather than struck as on a piano.
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Baroque Era was in Italy/ France starting around 1600, in Germany after 30years war in 1650. It ended about 1740. Romantic Periode was about 1820 to 1848.
Classical, Baroque and Romantic were certain periods of time and cultural development in parts overlapping and the music created during these periods are by this classical, baroque or romantic respectively.
my favourit composers are grieg and dvorak. but as a not so classical honorable mention: tuomas from nightwish is called "metal-mozart" for a reason. btw: their song "ghost love score" (live at wacken) is one of the most reacted songs on youtube. maybe you want to react to that too. And in their song "the greatest show on earth" (what is my favourit son from nightwish) you can find a little part from bach as an easteregg in it
Bach's Crab Canon is a short piece that can be played forwards or backwards. Or forwards and backwards at the same time with two instruments.
A concerto is a music work for a lead instrument (piano, violin etc.) and orchestra and contains three parts, while a symphony is a piece for orchestra (without a lead instrument) and is usually made of four parts. A symphony can also sometimes include choir.
In terms of who's better than whom, it's impossible for me to pick as there were many giants, each with his own major contribution.
I love Beethoven since I was child, but there's no doubt about Bach beeing the GOAT in the field of classical music.
Mozart.
Baroque, Chassical and Romantic are different styles associated with different times. The boundaries aren't clear, but basically Baroque was early (up to late 1700s), then came Classical (late 1700s to mid 1800's), and Romantic were early 1800's to late 1800's).
Oh, and for me 'top 4' composers - Johan Sabastien Bach, Wolfgang Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Igor Stavinsky. However there are HUNDREDS more that are utterly superb.
The instrument on which "Mozart" played was not a piano, but a harpsichord, the strings are not struck by small hammers, but plucked.
I would like to see Dvořák or Smetana from the Czech Republic, because they were and are quite famous abroad, especially Dvořák, I think he even lived in the US for a while and this year, like cover on his sympohinies was nominated for a Grammy. Not that I would put them hight on that list, but I was hoping like 10, 9, or 8th place maybe
the three greatest composers - Bach, Beethoven & Haendel, although I personally also like Frederick II. of Prussia - yes he wrote his own compositions for the flute which he played on orchestra evenings at Sanssouci, and since he invented the sub-style of frederican rokoko in architecture, he could be seen as a rokoko composer
When you covered Wagner, the "elevated lady" may have been portraying a Valkyrie from Germanic mythology.
Quite funny to see someone learning new things and being so interested in such an interesting topic.
I wish they had put more recognizable Chopin music to the background for him. He's my favorite but for a video like that I feel Nocturne Op9 no2 or Etude Op10 no3, Fantasie Impromptu, maybe a splash of Winter Wind Etude.
After the romantic period, there is the impressionistic and expressionistic periods leading into the modern era. Classical music and the visual arts such as painting and sculpture have followed similar phases throughout history.
10:30 It's not a piano, its a harpsichord. It's meant to sound clanky because it was a rhythm instrument for the bass continuo which was a big deal in the baroque era.
I highly recommend you listen to Jacques Loussier he's a jazz musician and he adapted a lot of classical music in jazz. My favourite is the four seasons from Vivaldi in jazz .. simply beautiful.
my top 3 composers are dvorak, beethoven, vivaldi
Victorian Era is only a thing in Anglo world
@9:50 I recommend you Falco - "Amadeus". Not classic music but 80's pop and a Number One Hit in the USA in 1986. You would enjoy it.
Many composers of all those periods would say: „I would not be here without Johann Sebastian Bach“
btw the Bach family was huge. Ancestors as well as descendants of J.S.Bach were artist, many musicians.
I just learnt the family did not die out,.
Philip Frederik Bach (1928-2008), Pianist, Organist also built pianos and organs, was born on Rochester, Minnesota.
He was the great-great-grandson of Johann Friedrich Nikolaus Bach who immigrate to the US in 1848. Though Philip Frederik Bach was probably on e of the last who came from a paternal lineage and actually name bearer. The serving eight descendants are not Bachs by name.
Impossible to give guidance on something as infinitely diverse as classical music.
Over the last couple of decades my guiding star has been Classic Fm.
You can get it on your device.
Every 'classic' from ancient to contemporary with some great presenters always ready with background information.
I call it 'The Open University of Classical Music'.
Have fun.
You should definitely go to an orchestral concert. They are not that expensive and an amazing experience 👍
So it’s my time lol i’ve made 3 playlists for people wanting to go into classical and who don’t really know how to start :)
Enjoy !
-Playlist 1 : czcams.com/play/PLmSzftHmGc7PqG_b1-7zcNCaNDxw-ymHS.html
-Playlist 2 : czcams.com/play/PLmSzftHmGc7My2RiEaSW6W4M38Oq-kedq.html
-Playlist 3 : czcams.com/play/PLmSzftHmGc7Nxi3hrNtlqb9IKKRIgAQqf.html
(one playlist is classified in chronological order, the performances are taken from other youtube videos)
side note : baroque, classical, romantic are not genre but refers to different time period (given here in chronological order).
6:12 good question, it goes back to the time of the King of France Louis XIV, "the Sun King". The wig had already existed prior to Louis XVI (in England especially) but it started becoming "trendy" for the European nobility only during his reign.
Beethoven was indeed deaf. He began to hear ringing and buzzing in his ears at age 26, and his hearing gradually worsened as he aged. When he wrote and conducted his 9th symphony, his hearing had deteriorated so much that he couldn’t even hear the thunderous applause from the audience when he finished.
the symphonie n9 from beethoven (the one u say ohh he s lisitening) is the european union anthem.
Fur Elise ( "for Alice") was dedicated to a serving girl at Beethovens local eatery
i heard a story about beethoven on his edge being able to feel the vibrations over the piano and figure out what was coming out of it. but what helped a lot was the fact he got deaf in early adult years and studied like crazy on his childhood and teenage, since his father was a bit of a drill sargent about him and the piano
1 From what I remember, the wigs started with one of the French kings going bald. He started wearing the wig to hide his awful hair, and then all the important people started emulating him.
2 The Wagner's piece with impaled people, is a from a play about Wiking mythology - the women on stage are valkiries, descending on a battlefield to take dead warriors to Valhalla, Odin's dining hall. (That music piece is also famous from the movie Apocalypse Now, where in the opening scene, a slightly crazy millitary commander plays it from loudspeakers on his helicopter while bombing a Vietnamese village)
3 "Classical music" is the general umbrella term for "western music played formally, for the purpose of being art".
You are so smart and have great ears and correct. The reason the Harpsichord was as you say not sound in tune, is because they weren't as close as a modern piano is. When they developed Well Temperment tuning in the 1600's it was a vast improvement, I don't know the actual system of physics behind it - but they came really close and one of your favs Bach even wrote two books celebrating it, called the Well Tempered Book 1 and 2, meaning each book had a prelude and fugue in each of the 16 major and minor keys, A a B b C c D d E e F f G g.
Ok, so I know this is very hard to understand, but, Baroque, Romantic, Classical and 20/21st Century music are different genres inside of the Classical genre. This means that the Baroque period for example was 1700 - c.1800. Then the techniques of composing shifts to romantic music (1800 - c.1900) and so on. It's not really to do with the orchestra that are being used but the instruments have obviously evolved over the years. I hope this makes more sense!
The instrument that you were commenting on that you don't like is not a piano! It is a Spinet or maybe a Harpsichord! They both sound similar. The reason they sound as they do is that the strings are not being struck by a hammer as in a piano. They are actually being Plucked kind of like a Harp.
Schubert died of syphilis. He wrote the most beautiful lieder imaginable, three major song cycles and many other in addition to those.
Beethoven was not always deaf, he started going deaf sometime in his 20s, but still composed amazing music after he went completely deaf right up to his death.
Beethoven became deaf at age 45 and started losing hearing from 30 to 45.
There are many keyboard instruments that are essentially the forerunners of the pianoforte ('quiet-loud').
The harpsichord plucks strings rather than hammering them like the piano, and their are more, such as the spinet.
If you look up Ramaeu's harpsichord pieces, you will find music that I find almost un-listenable, as it feels mannered and too much of a fixed form.
Rameau also created the iconic three-four beat that is still what people think is Native American drum music: a piece called 'les indes gallantes', which it is said was inspired by music played before the French King when 'indians' from the French colonies in what is now the US, visited him.
I loved your reaction to Haendel Messiha’s Alleluia !
May I suggest ?
Bach : aria (suite 3) and Badinerie (suite 2)
Beethoven : second movement of 7th symphony
Mozart : Ave Verum
Haendel : Water Music
Tchaikovsky : concerto for piano
Schubert : Musical moment 3 and Winterreise Gute Nacht
Vivaldi : concerto for piccolo in C major (RV443)
There’s a good way to put a name on a classic you like : classical music quiz on CZcams, you hear 20 seconds of the music (it’s enough) and they give the name - do it with paper and pen !
Salute from France 🇫🇷
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms
Baroque was an artistic movement of 17th century and 18th century born after the italian renaissance
Everytime I see Mozart I always wish they would include Salieri, Requiem is just so amazing
@13:30 That's the music from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom der Oper". A famous musical fresh out the 80's. I don't knew that this melody was composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.
I don't know if it's possible in the US. Try to stream Classic FM for a couple of days.
I agree this top 3. Think about how many popular musicians were influenced by classical music. How many songs were based on a classical piece of music?
Chopin. The minute waltz. Oh, I just want to comment back 😂 *Very* good video!