No Debussy jokes

I like them for the trance-like state they induce.

Perfect for coding & debugging.

The Pines of Rome
It's on YouTube.

Wrote a bunch of good stuff. "Church Windows".

It's kind of different and not to everyone's taste, but Claudio Monteverdi is one of the best composers of that period (early 17th century).

Other, more recent classical composers I like and who are sometimes overlooked include Gabriel Fauré, Modest Mussorgsky, Francis Poulenc, Béla Bartók, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Alan Hovhaness.

for the bombast of the Romantic composers.

For homework, I loved piano music from Scarlatti through Satie.

Even earlier, Machaut is worth listening to.

Oh, and John Dowland, the great English lute and song composer.

There's a recording of it by the Kronos Quartet - it sounds strangely modern when performed by a string quartet rather than sung. I belong to a choral group that will be performing music of the Burgundian School (Dufay, Binchois, etc.) later this year - I'm looking forward to it! Love that stuff.

I have that Hilliard Ensemble recording of his stuff that came out in the 80s-90s sometime. Kind of a heady brew for a early music newbie though.

Hope your performance goes well. I haven't sung in a choir since college, but I always enjoyed it.

like sol gabetta, yoyo ma, etc..

so does God

Bach Suites for Solo Cello, all six of them.

Loved it.

Will anyone hire me?

Funny story : when my son was little he announced to me that he decided he now liked classical music, so I asked him which composers? He replied "Mostly Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Aerosmith" He meant classic rock! 😀

An interesting work.

but I love Part. I also like Bartok and Schoenberg. Yes my taste in classical music ultimately derives from King Crimson and Robert Fripp!

He wasn't the scheming jerk portrayed in "Amadeus," in fact I like much of his work.

He just had the bad luck to be alive at the same time as a true genius, Mozart.

of "the Big Four" if it weren't for Mozart.

Salieri had a very successful career.

And yeah, from Mozart's letters, it appears that he didn't get along with a bunch of the Italians in the upper echelons of Viennese musical life, but he and Salieri had a good relationship, promoting each others work, and occasionally collaborating.

Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.

a/k/a "The Spanish Mozart". Died very young like Mozart and had some brillant works. "Los Esclavos Felices" (The Happy Slaves) is a magnificent work, very reminiscent of Mozart.

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Paul Hindemith
Arnold Schoenberg
Charles Ives
Aaron Copeland
John Cage


Disclaimer: I graduated with a major in Music.

Not only did he write groundbreaking pieces of music that introduce techniques 50 years ahead of their time, he paid the bills by basically inventing the whole modern life insurance model.

Composed for clarinet, violin, cello and piano while Messaien was a POW in a German Stalag, and performed outdoors in the rain before about 400 prisoners. It's hypnotic.

...if you want immersion while doing your homework, these guys wrote *long* symphonies.

Yes, ''tis true...the man who wrote Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? also wrote two albums of classical music.

Foot tapping. Maybe foot stomping.

If you like Bach and the Baroque era.