Earth, Fire, Wind and Water music??

[lostinidlewonder]

List pieces which you feel can be categorized into these elements.

EARTH: Godowsky "Bromo Volcano Java Suite pt II no 6"
FIRE: De Falla "Ritual Fire Dance from Love, The Magician "
WIND: Debussy "Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest (What the West Wind Saw) Preludes Bk1 no7"
WATER: Ravel "Ondine from Gaspard de la Nuit"

[djealnla]

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=7294.0

[redbaron]

EARTH: Grieg - Piano Concerto (reminds me of the Norwegian landscape)
FIRE: Scriabin - Vers la flamme
WIND: Rachmaninov - Études-tableaux Op 33 No 5 in D minor (icy Russian winds)
WATER: Ravel - Jeux D'eau

[ted]

Interesting. I tried to do it within two very nature-based composers of piano music - Frank Bridge and John Ireland. Interestingly, I cannot find a single example for WIND or even AIR in the piano output of either, and no FIRE for Ireland, which omission surprises me given their strongly mystical and atavistic bent.

Bridge:

WATER: The Midnight Tide, A Sea Idyl, Water Nymphs
FIRE: Hidden Fires (metaphorically)
EARTH: The Hedgerow, The Dew Fairy, Most of his Pastorals

Ireland:

WATER: By the Mere, Song of the Spring Tides
EARTH: Le Catioroc, The Towing Path

Chaminade:

WATER: Pecheurs de Nuit
EARTH: Au Pays Devaste, Pastorale, Sous bois