Writings, and Arts, in relations to Era, Composers, and Compositions

[m1469]

I am so intersted in studying something about Artists, Artworks, Writers and Writings that were either intentionally or unintentionally related to certain Musics and Composers.  Or even other musics that would relate to certain musics. 

I am wanting to compile a list of these things that might be helpful for people who are also interested in this very thing.

So, I will start.


Bach (or any polyphonic work) and Escher.
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,4736.msg44774.html#msg44774


Bach's WTC with Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues  Op 34 and Op 87
(I think it would be very interesting to compare them, key by key)


Literary examples from this thread here :
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,14197.msg152514.html#msg152514
(Composers and literary influences)




Please feel free to add more. 


m1469

[jas]

Nineteenth century France was a great time and place to be around if you were an artist of some kind.  People like Chopin, Liszt, Berlioz, Herz, Balzac, Hugo, Lamartine, Dumas, Delacroix and loads of others all knew each other and influenced and critiqued each other. I'll post more about that when I have time!

Jas

[alzado]

I agree with JAS regarding 19th Cen. France.  Esp. the city of Paris.

Do you know that when Erik Satie composed an opera, Pablo Picasso designed the stage sets?

Satie was criticized by friends and also by the city's journalists because more of his friends were painters than musicians.

Satie dedicated pieces to the family of Claude Debussy, and Debussy orchestrated piano piece written by Satie.

It was a marvelous milieu of cross-pollenization among the artists.  Paris at the end of the nineteenth century was a golden time.