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Offline brahmsian

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Personality
on: July 04, 2005, 03:34:09 PM
If you had to describe your personality using a piece of classical music, which song(s) would you pick? Personally I would choose Chopin's "Butterfly" Etude.
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Offline paris

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Re: Personality
Reply #1 on: July 04, 2005, 05:03:04 PM
i think these 3 pieces would describe me the best:

Liszt- Dante Sonata
Chopin- E-minor concerto, 1st movement (specially thema with chords in left)
Chopin- Sonata b flat minor
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Re: Personality
Reply #2 on: July 04, 2005, 07:18:48 PM
op57 Appassionata
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Re: Personality
Reply #3 on: July 04, 2005, 07:25:11 PM
Goldberg Variations--or at least I wish that was what my personality was like. 

More truthfully--probably the Berg Sonata
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Re: Personality
Reply #4 on: July 04, 2005, 07:48:52 PM
Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé ballet.
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Offline Waldszenen

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Re: Personality
Reply #5 on: July 05, 2005, 01:14:10 AM
When I'm in a good mood, the Prelude from Debussy's Suite Bergamasque.


Otherwise, the Passepied from that same suite. =)
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Offline quantum

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Re: Personality
Reply #6 on: July 05, 2005, 02:03:55 AM
Brahms Intermezzo Op. 118/6
Beethoven Op.111
Chopin 3rd Sonata
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Re: Personality
Reply #7 on: July 05, 2005, 02:29:32 AM
Beethoven :) hence Ludwig
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Offline steinwayguy

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Re: Personality
Reply #8 on: July 05, 2005, 02:42:38 AM
Beethoven's Emperor Concerto
Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto
Beethoven Op. 106 and Op. 111
Brahms Rhapsody Op. 119 No. 4
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Offline pianonut

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Re: Personality
Reply #9 on: July 05, 2005, 02:51:00 AM
i connect most with beethoven's walstein, but am moving along to really enjoy the chords in poulenc's tres pieces (although it is harder to memorize than beethoven).

 
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Re: Personality
Reply #10 on: July 05, 2005, 03:02:31 PM
Since you asked for songs I will go with Winterreise song cycle by Schubert
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Re: Personality
Reply #11 on: July 05, 2005, 03:55:48 PM
Dvorak Humoreske ^^
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Re: Personality
Reply #12 on: July 05, 2005, 04:12:14 PM
Chopin's Prelude Op.28 No.20 half time   :( ;)
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Offline Floristan

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Re: Personality
Reply #13 on: July 05, 2005, 04:30:17 PM
Richard Strauss's "Four Last Songs".
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Offline Bouter Boogie

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Re: Personality
Reply #14 on: July 06, 2005, 01:07:21 PM
Gosh, that's a good question though  ;D I'll think about it  ;D
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Re: Personality
Reply #15 on: July 06, 2005, 04:08:51 PM
Quote from: Skeptopotamus on July 05, 2005, 03:55:48 PM
Dvorak Humoreske ^^

I love that piece so much!! That probably describes me the best.
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Offline apion

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Re: Personality
Reply #16 on: July 07, 2005, 12:37:11 AM
Brahms, Piano Concerto no. 1 in d minor, op. 15 (1st mvt)
Brahms, Handel Variations (fugue)
Bach, Toccata and Fugue in d minor
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Offline Appenato

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Re: Personality
Reply #17 on: July 07, 2005, 02:08:46 AM
Fantaisie Impromptu - Chopin

Ballade no. 1 and 2 - Chopin

Moonlight Sonata, 1st mvmt.

Eusebius and Florestan - Schumann (from Carnaval)

Piano Concerto no. 2, 2nd mvmt. - Rachmaninoff

Nocturne no. 4, op. 54 - Grieg

... to name a few.


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Offline chopinmaniac

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Re: Personality
Reply #18 on: July 07, 2005, 02:53:19 AM
For me, hands down the 2nd ballade of Chopin.  I am so completely bipolar and sometimes people think im weird, but when they get to understand me better, they realize that I actually do make sense.

And the coda kicks a**
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Offline Kassaa

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Re: Personality
Reply #19 on: July 07, 2005, 07:21:40 AM
Don't know really. I'm evil, I'm always sarcastic, but to the people who can help me/give me money I'm always nice :(
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Offline ashraf_khalil72

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Re: Personality
Reply #20 on: July 07, 2005, 04:07:58 PM
i think iwill use faure's pavane
however it seems to me  that it depends on my psychlogical condition
may be in some other day iwill choose vivaldi's 4 seasons (spring)!!!!!!
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Offline kghayesh

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Re: Personality
Reply #21 on: July 07, 2005, 05:01:03 PM
I don't know why but i feel myself in the Revolutiuonary Etude ;)
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Offline dlu

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Re: Personality
Reply #22 on: July 10, 2005, 07:33:09 PM
Stragely enough...

Salome: Dance of Seven Veils (From the Opera "Salome" by Richard Strauss)

Rachmaninoff-Piano Concerto No. 1 (All Mvts)

Stravinsky-Rite of Spring

Lutoslawski-Cello and Piano Concertos

Perhaps these are just some of my favorite pieces...but...I think each of them are in some way part of my personality or perhaps they have even influenced who I am.

DLu
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Re: Personality
Reply #23 on: July 11, 2005, 03:36:17 PM
chopin prelude in eminor

life for the robot really sux :(

or his first ballade
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Re: Personality
Reply #24 on: July 12, 2005, 12:23:57 AM
Debussy's Clair de Lune, also Reverie
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Re: Personality
Reply #25 on: July 20, 2005, 10:48:18 AM
Think I would go for Islamey (Balakirev) :D The piece is so spiritual and there’s so many variation in it :)
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Offline janice

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Re: Personality
Reply #26 on: July 20, 2005, 11:31:00 PM
Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata.  Definitely!
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Re: Personality
Reply #27 on: July 21, 2005, 12:56:51 AM
 Rachmaninoff's Prelude Op. 23 No.5 in G minor, or the Op. 3 No.2 in C sharp minor, his third and second Piano Concertos... Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15.
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Re: Personality
Reply #28 on: July 28, 2005, 04:31:53 AM
Quote from: dlu on July 10, 2005, 07:33:09 PM
Stragely enough...

Salome: Dance of Seven Veils (From the Opera "Salome" by Richard Strauss)

Rachmaninoff-Piano Concerto No. 1 (All Mvts)

Stravinsky-Rite of Spring

Lutoslawski-Cello and Piano Concertos

Perhaps these are just some of my favorite pieces...but...I think each of them are in some way part of my personality or perhaps they have even influenced who I am.

DLu

I'll add Gaspard de la Nuit (Artful dodger of the night) to my list...I'm very sneaky
DLu
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Re: Personality
Reply #29 on: July 28, 2005, 05:24:41 AM
I definitely connect with Beethoven - the Appassionata seems to contain all that I "see" in Beethoven.  The relentless intensity with ocassional fits - in a minor key!  that's me!
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Re: Personality
Reply #30 on: July 28, 2005, 05:32:02 AM
Prokofiev´s Romeo and Juliet´s "Death of Juliet". I feel like that most of the time.
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Re: Personality
Reply #31 on: July 28, 2005, 05:36:51 AM
Quote from: piazzo23 on July 28, 2005, 05:32:02 AM
Prokofiev´s Romeo and Juliet´s "Death of Juliet". I feel like that most of the time.

woa! Nasty!
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Offline Siberian Husky

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Re: Personality
Reply #32 on: July 28, 2005, 09:36:39 AM
Moonlight Sonata..thats all me..

you hear me?..ME!..ONLY ME!..NOT YOU!...


okay you too..but thats it nobody else!!..EVERYELSE CAN GO HOME!...

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Re: Personality
Reply #33 on: July 28, 2005, 01:05:23 PM
Mozart's Twinkle Twinkle variations  ::)
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Re: Personality
Reply #34 on: July 28, 2005, 04:05:36 PM
Beethoven concerto #4 first movement... 

close second Chopin ballade #4

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Offline Jacey1973

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Re: Personality
Reply #35 on: July 28, 2005, 10:28:11 PM
Coronation street - theme tune............











yeah right
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Re: Personality
Reply #36 on: July 28, 2005, 10:41:28 PM
Depends on the mood...

Happy :) Chopin's Grande Polonaise in E-flat Op.22

Angry >:( Liszt's 'Mazeppa' Trancendental Etude

Sad  :'( Chopin's Mazurka in A minor Op.17 No.4

Sleepy N-) Rachmaninoff's Prelude Op.32 No.5 in G major
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Re: Personality
Reply #37 on: July 29, 2005, 02:08:39 AM
Quote from: dinosaurtales on July 28, 2005, 05:36:51 AM
woa! Nasty!

A little depressive isn´t it?  ;D
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