Mozart the Cat

Das St Bernard? Was St Bernard? Ich habe never heard of Herr Beethoven.

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[straussii-official]

T͎͎ ̶H̺͔̣͓͜ ̬͙̗͙̲E̼̙̙̻͔ ̸̰R̠͠ ̤̞̝E͚̤͈ ̩̬ ̬͎ͅC̞̭͍͍̣͡ ̢̦͖͓̗̘̬ͅA̝̲̩̙̞̖͝ ̰͔̜ͅN̸ ̡͈ ̣̝̣̩͈̠ͅO̪͖͚̠̲̱ ̝͈͇̝̻N̙̹̯ ̻L͏̥̜͕͖ ͈Y ̱͍͔͓ ͚̩̜̱̟ͅB҉͉̩ ͔̙͜Ẹ͖͓̜̠̭͜ ̫̬̫͉͕ ̶͇͙̩Ǫ̩͈ ̶N̥̹̪̲̰̙͞ ̙̠̲̤̭̺͜E̯̘̤ ̲

[franzschubert-official]

only true 1820s kids remember the original king of waltz 

[antoniosalieri-official]

This makes me very Straussed

[magic-of-eternity]

Linderhof Palace. Ettal. Germany

[whatshouldwecallconservatory-de]

Music world: symphonies should have four movements, in keys that are related somehow and the orchestra should be under 100 not containing a Hammer

Gustav Mahler : u do what u want when you poppin

[bcneggncheez-deactivated2020121]

[johann-sebastian-bitch]

you forgot one

[robostripping]

when ur tryna compose but ur tired as fuck

[take-me-to-your-lieder-deactiva]

Composers and Their Fighting Styles

Bach - forces you to analyse his fugues until you surrender or die

Handel - uses his army of devoted countertenors

Beethoven - straight up punches you in the face. He’ll kick anyone’s ass. He’ll kick his own ass if he must.

Mozart - probably tries fence with a dildo. He isn’t taking this seriously.

Salieri - nobody notices him enough to engage him in battle. Who knows what Salieri would do…

Haydn - he cheerfully pushes you into the Donau while on his morning stroll. You never suspected a thing.

Vivaldi - says he can’t fight because of his asthma, but might thwack you with a broken violin when you aren’t paying attention

Schubert - doesn’t fight much. He is tiny and nearsighted and harmless to all except the pianists rehearsing Erlkönig

Wagner - he’s hopping up and down and shaking his fists, but really doesn’t know what he’s doing

Chopin - coughs on you

Liszt - strangles you with yaoi hands

Paganini - probably summons Satan or something

Britten - fights by aggressively ignoring you.

Dowland - plays his own compositions and you fall over in tears

Purcell - he sits on the ground and starts crying, and you trip over him

Shostakovich - he will pretty much only fight Stalin, but if you are Stalin, he would probably use a tank

Stravinsky - makes sacrifices to the Russian spring god in exchange for maximum roundhouse kick powers

Mahler - uses a hammer

Tchaikovsky - uses a cannon

Schoenberg - you just see him coming and run away

Cage - he sits very still but you are nonetheless frightened, because you don’t know what he’s capable of

[teenagershine]

[pleatedjeans]

via

[thyme-sweetened-honey]

Also one time he was supposed to write a violin and piano duet, and he wrote the violin part, but he didn’t really feel like writing the piano part, or was too lazy etc. When the concert came up (he played the piano while a fiend played the violin) he set up a blank piece of paper (so people would think he was reading music) and improvised. After the concert he wrote it down so it could be published

[lokidokis-deactivated20151203]

A fiend

[badwolfos-deactivated20190311]

Shoutout to whoever performed that overture with no practice.

[tbreed-deactivated20191108]

Except from what I’ve heard/read he wrote most of his overtures the morning of so he could best use all of the themes he’d written and to fit the tone of the opera after all of the last minute changes had been made. So it was intentional procrastination, but still incredibly impressive. (Correct me if I’m wrong, fizzylimon)

[stevetomjohn]

Nah that’s totally true. Not necessarily the morning of, but he always wrote the overtures last and generally after the final dress so that he could capture the mood of the entire work as it stood in its final form. It’s not like he went “OH SHIT I NEED AN OVERTURE” - he was always pondering on it, but it was just the final stone to be set, more or less.

[take-me-to-your-lieder-deactiva]

Wolfie, you little shit…

[mozartthecat]

[madopiano]

AU in which Schubert survives syphilis and lives a full and happy life and produces hundreds more pages of exquisite music so that I don’t have to sit here crying about how much we lost because he was taken from this earth too soon 

[rubyetc]

SOON

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[doubleflopflat]

only liszt would try his hardest to find a use for a triple dotted note

[extraordinary-portraiture]

Cellist Maurice Baquet by Robert Doisneau

[fuckyeahbandbuffalo]

please watch this

[marchingonward-deactivated20171]

I’ve seen this maybe 17 times and it still gets me.

[hornraven]

this is basically how all musicians are

[frozen-fingertips-deactivated20]

I am in an orchestra and I can confirm 110% this is how we act

[orchestrion-works]

Also applies to choir singers. And solists.