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Offline rubinsteinmad

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Favorite Piano Compsoers of Every Nationality
on: September 15, 2015, 11:50:03 PM
aka Every nationalaity you can think of.

Here's mine:

USA:
Gottschalk
MacDowell
Gershwin
Cowell

France:
Debussy
Rameau
Faure
Ravel

British:
Vaughan Williams
Purcell
York Bowen
Henry the (5+3)th [I mean, I'm beautiful enough to become his Queen, but I'm smart enough not to. ::)

German:
Handel
Mendelssohn
Bach (for his non-Keyboard works)

Hungarian:
Liszt
 
Austrian:
Schubert
Haydn

Polish:
Chopin

Australian:
Percy Grainger

Russian:
Balakirev
Glinka
Lyapunov
Rachmaninoff
Tchaikovsky

Italian:
Paganini
Scarlatti

Japanese:
Minako Tokuyama (she's the only one I know XD)

Norweigian:
Grieg

That's all I can think of now. Hbu?




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Offline cbreemer

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Re: Favorite Piano Compsoers of Every Nationality
Reply #1 on: September 16, 2015, 06:36:45 AM
Haha, Paganini a favorite piano composer. Keep 'em coming  ;D
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Re: Favorite Piano Compsoers of Every Nationality
Reply #2 on: September 16, 2015, 08:05:17 PM
Oops ;D How could I include Paganini but not Puccini or Vivaldi??? I must have had a brain fart ::)
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Re: Favorite Piano Compsoers of Every Nationality
Reply #3 on: September 16, 2015, 08:27:54 PM
Well. Paganini did write a lot of nice variations did he not ;-)
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Re: Favorite Piano Compsoers of Every Nationality
Reply #4 on: September 16, 2015, 09:08:15 PM
Quote from: cbreemer on September 16, 2015, 08:27:54 PM
Well. Paganini did write a lot of nice variations did he not ;-)

IMSLP doesn't have any piano pieces by him
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Re: Favorite Piano Compsoers of Every Nationality
Reply #5 on: September 17, 2015, 10:17:30 AM
Interesting. Non of my favorites or even 2nd and third choice from each nationality listed even appear on the list. Also, ton of countries w fantastic piano  music and composers  were left out. Shame on you.
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Re: Favorite Piano Compsoers of Every Nationality
Reply #6 on: September 17, 2015, 02:46:29 PM
Quote from: visitor on September 17, 2015, 10:17:30 AM
Interesting. Non of my favorites or even 2nd and third choice from each nationality listed even appear on the list. Also, ton of countries w fantastic piano  music and composers  were left out. Shame on you.

That's because your favorite is named like Ywliadk Hyalsoe and your second favorite is probably Bcadeqwa Nahlwkƒs.
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Re: Favorite Piano Compsoers of Every Nationality
Reply #7 on: September 17, 2015, 08:38:14 PM
Quote from: pencilart3 on September 17, 2015, 02:46:29 PM
That's because your favorite is named like Ywliadk Hyalsoe and your second favorite is probably Bcadeqwa Nahlwkƒs.

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