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living_stradivarius

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If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

on: July 23, 2006, 12:47:50 AM

Just so we could eliminate some choices from that other thread.

...because he had a wildly complex persona and WSS is my favorite

Otherwise it'd be

to see if he was truly possessed, and if I could inherit any of his L33t skillz.

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #1 on: July 23, 2006, 01:03:33 AM

definitely

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lets face it, the man is an unappreciated genius. it would be great to see the methods behind his madness.

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #2 on: July 23, 2006, 05:18:52 AM

Aleksandr Scriabin

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #3 on: July 23, 2006, 05:33:08 AM

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #4 on: July 23, 2006, 08:55:21 AM

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #5 on: July 23, 2006, 10:31:39 AM

Quote from: arensky on July 23, 2006, 05:33:08 AM

Me too. He'd probably be terrified of me, though. I wouldn't be able to stop staring!

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #6 on: July 23, 2006, 11:04:36 PM

I don't think I'd like to meet any of them. MY knowledge of music theory is so bad that we wouldn't have much to talk about. Just long pauses of awkward awkward silence.

Me: So... I really, um, liked your 3rd symphony
Them: ...
Me: yep
Them: ...

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #7 on: July 24, 2006, 09:32:34 AM

Probably Takemitsu... not my favourite composer by far, but he sounds like a pretty amazing person.

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #8 on: July 27, 2006, 04:18:04 PM

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #9 on: October 30, 2006, 08:30:26 PM

By order of preference
1. Liszt
2. Chopin
3. Beethoven

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #10 on: October 30, 2006, 08:48:23 PM

Liszt during his pimping time

Rachmaninov so I can make him smile

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #11 on: October 31, 2006, 09:19:40 AM

J.S.Bach

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #12 on: October 31, 2006, 09:45:03 AM

Quote from: henrah on October 30, 2006, 08:48:23 PM

Rachmaninov so I can make him smile

Ah, but Rachmaninov smiled all the time - it's just that he didn't do it in public!

When he began to make piano rolls for Ampico, they gave him an Ampico piano for use at home, and he apparently fell hook, line and sinker for the popular dance arrangements of the day. He would sometimes call in at the studios, so the story goes, and chat to the young musical arrangers, congratulating them on their ingenuity and counterpoint, and encouraging them to do more. It's rather fun to think that Rachmaninov had a significant influence on dance music of the 1920s - someone should do a thesis one day.

Henrah, have you heard his performance of his arrangement of Kreisler's "Liebesfreud"? It is so witty and mischievous! I ought not to post it here, because I only have recordings that are subject to mechanical copyright. But I could email it to you personally without breaking the law, couldn't I, if you want to send me your email address via a PM?

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Re: If you could meet one composer from history, whom would it be?

Reply #13 on: October 31, 2006, 01:19:01 PM

Chopin of course

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