forum Tchaikovsky And his cannons

Started October 06, 2018 by Deleted user

tune

So I was listening to “1812 overture” and I was like “Is that cannon fire?!”
Looked it up.
Yup.
Wow.
Way to go Tchaikovsky.

I KNOW ISN'T IT RAD
EVERYONE IS LIKE "classical music is boring"
NO YOU ARE WRONG
POP MUSIC IS BORING
CLASSICAL MUSIC IS SO AMAZING FROM AN ARTISTIC STANDPOINT
JUST
YES
honestly the old-school composers had it going on
they knew what's up

I'm doing Der Erlkonig right now for choir and I'm constantly blown away by the intro for it. And Schuber wrote it WHEN HE WAS 18!!!

ITS PRETTY GREAT HUH?

YEAH AND ALTOS GET A SOLO??? THAT'S ACTUALLY GOOD??? THAT'S A HECKING FIRST!!!

Exactly
Some people are really stupid

Does John Williams' scoring count as 'classical'??? He's my favorite composer!! unless Lin-Manuel Miranda counts

My favourite is probably Chopin

Ah yes. He was a strange fellow.

How?

He had a jar of dirt from his home country his whole life and was buried in it. There was more, but I forgot. He was just an interesting guy, I read a big book about musicians a few years ago and he stood out to me.

He asked to be quartered
He also asked his brother to destroy his manuscripts
He also had an affair with a female author (George Sand was her writing name) who dresses like a man

Ah yes he was the one who affaired George Sand. She also was a mountain climber.

I thought she was an author?
Oh and we did 1812 Overture at my old school and we built a cannon!

And a mountain climber I believe??

Yeah
Probably both
Too lazy to Google it