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Offline Tash

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composer biographies
on: September 14, 2004, 02:08:07 PM
ok i've found that since arriving at this forum my knowledge on composers is shamefully unknowledgable compared to a mass of you. and thus i'm inspired to learn more cos the basics if just not good enough anymore!

so can you recommend me some good interesting biographies on some composers for me to read? like chopin, liszt, bartok, stravinsky, bach, prokofiev, rachmaninov, poulenc, schubert, basically anyone is good!

thanks heaps
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Offline bernhard

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Re: composer biographies
Reply #1 on: September 14, 2004, 04:45:20 PM
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Offline DarkWind

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Re: composer biographies
Reply #2 on: September 14, 2004, 11:44:26 PM
Read anything on Scriabin. I personally believe he led one of the most interesting lives ever, composer or not.
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Offline Daevren

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Re: composer biographies
Reply #3 on: September 15, 2004, 02:23:00 AM
I read Bauwers book, almost completely.

But I read it early in the moring. I am afraid I have to reread it. I have very poor concertration when reading.

It was much more interesting than Chopin, for example, but the interesting person ever?

He surely was a strange man.

I just want to know, who was the strangest composer? Composers where you just get the impression that their genius has totally consumed them, turning them almost insane. Composers which intellect is too big to handle safely.

Scriabin is probably high in that list. I am just curious.

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Offline DarkWind

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Re: composer biographies
Reply #4 on: September 15, 2004, 04:28:40 AM
Satie?
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Offline Motrax

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Reply #5 on: September 15, 2004, 06:36:32 AM
Sorabji? Though it's very easily arguable that he was far from a genius. :)
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