tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post6730497136424314872..comments2024-01-23T17:14:04.067-05:00Comments on Jaltcoh: The top 10 greatest classical composers — honorable mentionsJohn Althouse Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11703450281424023177noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-83144341161447350772011-05-26T03:29:16.264-04:002011-05-26T03:29:16.264-04:00Hello, John.
Your top10 list is quite interesting...Hello, John. <br />Your top10 list is quite interesting, and your reflexions over it are even better.<br />Bach, Moart and Beethoven are undeniable.<br />Beethoven, Debussy and Shoenberg really deserves their spots beacuse of their inovations, wich gave life to music and it's history.<br /><br />However, what really made me write this response wold be the desagreements. But imagine me laughting while I speech, I'm Brazillian, please don't take my words so hardly.<br /><br />Actually, I have only one central complaint: the mentions...<br /><br />I was really missing tchaikovsky and vivaldi, at least you remembered them. I still want to know your oppinion about Grieg.<br />And last, but [definitelly] not least: Ravel... "nice"... "GREAT" is much few to describe Le tombeu de Couperin, Sonatine and the famous Bolero. What about the Mirroirs...Arthurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02546944068782152233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-18998082039972662572011-01-29T00:54:04.462-05:002011-01-29T00:54:04.462-05:00Enjoyed your list with the musical selections very...Enjoyed your list with the musical selections very much. I rediscovered some old favorite pieces I haven't listened to in a while as well as a lot of new ones.<br /><br />Your comments were thoughtful and generally very illuminating. Thanks again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-33979410937017642882011-01-25T16:59:35.123-05:002011-01-25T16:59:35.123-05:00Vivaldi's summer is generally accepted as insp...Vivaldi's summer is generally accepted as inspired by serfs working under a hot sun. The idea of summers off is rather modern and more likely the reverse since more work would need to be done then compared to winter which was mostly waiting til spring to get back to work.Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-53077965546458209682011-01-22T15:44:57.726-05:002011-01-22T15:44:57.726-05:00Note that I've been following Tommasini's ...Note that <a href="http://jaltcoh.blogspot.com/2011/01/who-are-top-10-greatest-composers.html" rel="nofollow">I've been following Tommasini's somewhat arbitrary rules,</a> one of which is that he excluded composers from the Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque eras.John Althouse Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11703450281424023177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-83695913301912760742011-01-22T12:47:02.212-05:002011-01-22T12:47:02.212-05:00Excellent list. Also, these days there's incre...Excellent list. Also, these days there's increased appreciation of pre-Baroque music, and the fact that it's something of a fad doesn't, I think, diminish the beauty and importance of those eras, just as the sentimental fad for Jane Austen doesn't diminish her stature as a novelist. Composers such as Josquin des Prez, Guillaume de Machaut, Guillaume Dufay, and Carlo Gesualdo wrote deeply moving (and from what I've read, often innovative) music before the cult of the individual arose, and with limited technical means. If they'd been born in the Classical or Romantic eras, surely they would have created great works in those styles. Also I have a personal soft spot for the songs of John Dowland, the sweetest sad love songs ever written.Richard Lawrence Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951947957345891398noreply@blogger.com