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[classical-crap]

pretty sure rachmaninoff only wrote symphonic works when he couldn't play all of the notes on the piano by himself

[succubusvenus]

I wasn’t asked to a single dance in high school and didn’t have a serious romantic relationship until I was 22. And like, yeah that shit hurt when I was younger. I had a lot of fears that I was unlovable and that I didn’t deserve to be happy. And every time I would try to talk to anyone about it, the conversation became, “you’ll find someone”, when it should have been, “you don’t need a relationship or a date, you’re lovable & complete & beautiful on your own”.

So yeah, please normalize young people not dating, and please stop shaming them for it. There’s more to life than romance, despite what the media wants us to think.

[nerdfighterwhatevernumbers]

#and not just shaming them#stop effing openly pitying them too

[barcarole]

From a conversation between Ernest Guiraud and Debussy, Debussy: Volume 1, 1862-1902: His Life and Mind (by Edward Lockspeiser)

[colorslashform]

just want to say im disappointed, u post all these ass pics and u work with classical music and u can't even find it in u to make one single debussy joke? cmon man up your game

Damn, you’re right. I need to start integrating composers into my normal sex stories.

Let me tell you about my morning, then.

He Woelfls my Pärt down and gives me the good Suk before he Bax dat Haas up on my Pijper and I Fuchs Debussy. After the initial Paine - the Deliuscious Paine - his Fanny Mendelssohn relaxes and I give him the Albenizness. He loves the Albenizness. I love getting Orff in his Busoni, so we’re on an even Foote - at least until I come like de Fallahose and fill his Poot like the little Beach he is.

[ultrafacts]

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[et-des-jours-heureux]

Tchaikovsky: *is gay*

Imperial School of Jurisprudence:

[yes-im-a-simple-man]

[classical-crap]

anatomy of a music history book

bach :)

haydn

mOzart

BEETHOVEN BEETHOVENBEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN beEEFFFOVEN BBEEETHIVE BEETHOVENBEETHOVEN Beetgoven BEETHOVEN BEETHOVENBEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN beEEFFFOVEN BBEEETHIVE BEETHOVENBEETHOVEN Beetgoven BBBBBAEEETHOVEN MMMMMYESSSSS

tchaikbrahms

schoenberg

*oh,? and music outside of europe existed

[itsaviolathing]

See also:

Renaissance

Classical

BEETHOVEN

Romantic

20th Century

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

⁹ᵗʰ ᵗᵒ ¹⁶ᵗʰ ᶜᵉⁿᵗᵘʳʸ

Bach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mozart

Others Sometimes Existed

LUDWIG LUDWIG LUDWIG LUDWIG LUDWIG

the romantic period happened

serialism. cage. electronics

P.S. women? did women exist?

[chopindaily]

Happy birthday week to Chopin 💖✨🎈🎂🎉

[pianistedujour]

happy valentine’s day! here are a bunch of shitty valentines I made on Snapchat for your (and my) amusement

[thecuriouspianist]

—Yehudi Menuhin

Happy New Year 🎆🎈🎊 🥂

May you practice with joy in 2019✌🏼

[datarep]

Time signature changes in each movement of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”

[justmusicianquotes]

[musicmajormemes]

[barcarole]

Dmitri Shostakovich in 1957, by Nicholas Tikhomiroff.

[shostakovich-trash]

Opera Masterpost

I haven’t seen this done yet, so I thought I would put together a list of operas you can watch for free on Youtube. Feel free to add!

Baroque

Handel -Rinaldo -Ariodante -Serse

Purcell -The Fairy Queen -Dido and Aneas

Classical

Hadyn -Orfeo ed Euridice 

W.A. Mozart -Don Giovanni -Die Zauberflote -Idomeneo  -The Marriage of Figaro -Cosi Fan Tutte

Donizetti -Lucia Di Lammermoor

Romantic period

Rossini -The Barber of Seville -William Tell -Otello -Cinderella

Verdi -Aida -La Traviata  -Il Trovatore

Boito -Mephistofele

Wagner -Lohengrin -Das Rheingold -The Valkyrie -Siegfried -Gotterdammerung -Tannhauser -Tristan and Isolde

Gounod -Faust

Bizet -Carmen

Tchaikovsky -Pikovaya Dama -Eugene Onegin -Mazeppa

Puccini -Madama Butterfly -Tosca -Edgar -Turandot -La Boheme -Suor Angelica

Strauss -Elektra

20th Century

Stravinsky -The Nightingale  -Oedipus Rex

Prokofiev -War and Peace -Betrothal in a Monastery -The Gambler -For the Love of Three Oranges

Shostakovich -The Nose (part 1/ part 2) -Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District (part 1/ part 2/ part 3) -Katerina Izmailova (film adaption of Lady Macbeth)

Britten -Peter Grimes -The Rape of Lucretia  -Albert Herring

Bernstein -Candide

[ambiguations]

I just saw a performance by a violinist where, before intermission, he asked the audience to nominate holiday songs and composers, and then played the given song in the style of the composer.

The first three composers were ones I wasn’t very familiar with, but when someone asked for “The Dreidel Song” I yelled “Do Shostakovich!” and he said, “yeah, that’s great, I can do an ironic major/minor sort of thing” and then played what sounded exactly like a Shostakovich arrangement of the Dreidel Song, if there were one. I wish I had a recording.