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Johann Strauss II by Stefan Schlageter

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Alberto Ginastera 

#composer #illustration #Ginastera

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Aaron Copland by Mikkel Sommer

#Copland #composer

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Maurice Ravel by Marcos Guilherme

#ravel #illustration

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Ligeti - Piano Etude - Book 1 - No. 4: Fanfares

Performed by Jeremy Denk

Album Reviews: NPR 

#Jeremy Denk #pianist #Ligeti #piano #classical music #etude

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Who else is excited for Rafal Blechacz’s new Bach album?

#Bach #piano #pianist #Rafal Blechacz #classical music #baroque #baroque music #keyboard music #piano music

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Schubert at the Piano, Gustav Klimt, 1899.

#Schubert #Art

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The main thing Ligeti is doing is throwing in different chromatic lines all the time in different voices and then, towards the end, amassing a tremendous amount of sound and making you pound out one more devastating chord after another. Especially after the four minutes of the etude as a whole, you're pretty wiped out mentally, and then you have to create this visceral, destructive force.

Jeremy Denk

#Jeremy Denk #pianist #quote #Ligeti

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk,  Émile Prudent, Franz Liszt, Henri Herz, and Jacques Herz by Nadar

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support #womeninmusic

Wow. This is very disappointing. I don’t like sexist conductors, but thats just my taste. 

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John Adams

#John Adams #minimalist composer

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I don’t play a string instrument but these are so cute :)

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And if you believe his metaphor that the chords "draw near you," "descending from realms above," you are so utterly stupid harmonically that, frankly, you aren't worth  bothering about

Hans Keller on C. M. Girdlestone

#quote #musicology #music #music criticism

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#tchaikovsky music competition #tch15 #Russia #pianist #Lucas Debargue

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#Martha #martha argerich #pianist

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Bruno et son calendrier classique

Le Petit Soldat (1960), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

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Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 ("Classical") - I. Allegro

Performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn

#Prokofiev #symphony #classical symphony #russian composer #classical music #orchestra #La Phil #LA Philharmonic #LA #los angeles philharmonic orchestra #Andre Previn