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thewholeguacamole

midnineties

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joey-wheeler-official

He’s right

musictheoryaugmented

Modulation

In Bach:

In 20th-Century popular music:

mendelssohn-kin

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four-flats

Beethoven, a certifiable disaster

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pianononsense

Oboes are red Violins are blue But I was meant For the kazoo

mendelssohn-kin

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composersdoingnormalshit

Claude Debussy gardening.

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classical-crap

me, reading a shostakovich score and finding some version of The Motif: oh shosty you sneaky bastard

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underoosstark

classical music history is so incredibly wild, but here’s a few of my personal favorite fun facts about certain composers:

1) Beethoven was an absolute mess - he would leave half full chamber pots underneath his piano and his friends used to sneak into his house to replace his dirty clothing with new, clean pairs (he was completely unaware of the clothing exchange, and never noticed)

2) after his death, Haydn’s head was decapitated and stolen. his body was dug up about 10 years after his death, and it was discovered his skull was completely missing. they discovered the culprits, who turned over a completely different skull and kept Haydn’s for themselves. Haydn’s skull was finally discovered 123 years after his death but the fake skull was never removed from his grave. to this day, there are two heads buried in Haydn’s tomb.

3) when Stravinsky debuted his ballet Rite of Spring, the audience was absolutely shocked by the untraditionally inharmonic piece & sharp, unnatural choreography - so shocked that they began rioting during the performance. the rioting was so loud, the dancers could not hear the music on the stage, and the beat had to be shouted so they could continue.

4) while Bach was 20 years old, he worked as the head church musician, as well as teaching the student orchestra and choir. Bach publicly insulted one of his bassoon student, referring to him as a “nanny-goat bassoonist”. later, the student found Bach, assaulted him with a stick, and beat him up. Bach went to the church to ask for justice against the student, but the church simply insisted that Bach needed to be kinder to his students.

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