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Offline hodi

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Composers from the classical period
on: September 15, 2007, 01:21:04 PM
Which composers from the classical period wrote good piano music which worth playing?
i realize that from the classic period i know only a few composers: Mozart, Haydn,Weber,Hummel,Clementi, some beethoven, some CPE bach and that's it.
can someone give more names? (and names of pieces if you know that even better :)

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #1 on: September 15, 2007, 04:13:07 PM
Dussek - Sonata L'Invocation
Norbert Burgmuller - Sonata Op8
J B Cramer - Sonata Op20
Czerny - Variations Brilliantes - Op12
Kalkbrenner - Concerto 4
Moscheles - Concerto 7
Woelfl - Non Plus Ulttra Sonata
Steibelt - Storm Rondo

There is squillions.

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Offline klavierkonzerte

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #2 on: September 20, 2007, 11:07:58 PM
some favorites

wolfl - grand sonata in c minor, very attractive and vertuosic
dussek- la morte de marie antoinette, i love this piece

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #3 on: September 21, 2007, 04:57:28 PM
I am trying out some Woelfl at the moment and remain very impressed.

Not "Beethoven" level, but a nice alternative. I understand Beethoven admired his compositions.

Quality forgotten composer that deserves further investigation.

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #4 on: September 21, 2007, 09:43:11 PM
Antonin Reicha - the 36 fugues are just astounding.
Instrumentalists are all wannabe singers. Discuss.

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #5 on: September 21, 2007, 11:21:28 PM
Soler

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #6 on: September 22, 2007, 12:00:38 AM

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #7 on: September 22, 2007, 12:57:15 AM

that's from the baroque period

No.



From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known today as Padre Antonio Soler, (baptized December 3, 1729 - died December 20, 1783)

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #8 on: September 22, 2007, 02:41:20 AM
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Composers from the classical period

Are mostly boring. Sorry.  :P

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #9 on: September 22, 2007, 02:43:04 AM

that's from the baroque period

Soler is baroque one moment (when he's ripping off Scarlatti's style) and classical the other (when he's trying do his own thing, unsuccessfully i might add).

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #10 on: September 22, 2007, 12:32:01 PM
Which composers from the classical period wrote good piano music which worth playing?
i realize that from the classic period i know only a few composers: Mozart, Haydn,Weber,Hummel,Clementi, some beethoven, some CPE bach and that's it.
can someone give more names? (and names of pieces if you know that even better :)
1. CPE Bach wasn't classical.  He was empfinsamkeit.

2. Hummel and Clementi were a bit late.  I wouldn't count them.

3.  Schubert
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #11 on: September 22, 2007, 03:01:53 PM
2. Hummel and Clementi were a bit late.  I wouldn't count them.

Hummel and Clementi couldn't possibly be more archtypically classical.

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #12 on: September 22, 2007, 03:20:11 PM
Kozeluch (1747-1818) apparently wrote  a handful of piano concertos, not that I ever heard any of them.

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #13 on: September 22, 2007, 03:55:00 PM
2. Hummel and Clementi were a bit late.  I wouldn't count them.


Clementi was born before Mozart, so hardly late.

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Re: Composers from the classical period
Reply #14 on: September 22, 2007, 03:56:27 PM
Hummel and Clementi couldn't possibly be more archtypically classical.
I'm sorry.  I was wrong- although a lot of their works were written in the romantic period, were they not?
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)
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