If your shitty pop muzak is an 8 what the fuck are Beethoven's late string quartets? a 400? most music is barely a 1 to 3, the Beatles fall in here and so do most other popular music with very few exceptions that reach a 4, even a 5. Bartok string quartets would be a 6, 2 degrees of magnitude higher you have works by Brahms and other great masters. Then 9 and 10 are reserved for the highest achievements of human race like Beethoven's late string quartets or his Missa Solemnis or Mass in B minor by Bach or his Brandenburg Concertos.
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>By the second week of May 1878 Brahms was back at work in Pörtschach, as usual keeping his cards close until he had something to show. For all the pleasures of the town, his temper there could be as variable as everywhere else. Russian composer Iwan Knorr learned that one night when Brahms was invited to the house of a music patroness who he knew was friendly with Cosima Wagner. And whenever Cosima turned up, this lady was careful to hide her copies of Brahms’s music. Brahms arrived at her house with Knorr and violinist Richard Barth, to find his works and his picture grandly displayed on the piano. Nudging Knorr, he said loudly, “See here, Brahms everywhere you look! But you mustn’t for an instant suppose that this is always the case! Here one modulates into various keys. Well, Frau X, how about singing a bit of Peter Cornelius?”
>Earnestly the hostess swore she had no such Wagnerian trash in the house. At which point Brahms began to rummage through her cupboards, the lady becoming more and more distraught, until with a cry of triumph he produced a copy of Cornelius’s songs. Sitting down to the piano, he began to play and sing them in his raucous voice, with commentary—“Quite different from that Brahms guy, eh?”—until his victim collapsed in tears. Eventually he ceased the torture and agreed to play a sonata with Barth. “We really wanted to play Mozart,” he told his whimpering hostess, “but as you’re not worthy of it, we shall, for your punishment, play Brahms’s A Major.” Recalling the experience, Knorr said, “I have seldom lived through a more painful evening.”
As far as the Romantics are concerned: Wagner > Mendelsson > Schumann > Decaffeinated tea >Tchaikovsky > Brahms > Liszt > Mahler > Me > Rachmaninov > A randomly selected Soundcloud artist > Fanny Mendelsson&Clara Schumann > My 2AM diarrhea > Chopin
Juan Hernandez
Nope. Bach would eventually get tired of counterpoint and start writing pop songs or get a totally new hobby.
Levi Ramirez
wagnerfags are so stupid
Thomas Taylor
serious question, what would a classicalfag rate this album?
