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Post subject: Re: CMM 'MONSTER 127' GREATEST COMPOSERS POLL!!
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:59 pm
GENERAL
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Sorin Ascended wrote:
Feanor wrote:
(Other people's choices: Alkan Why not?)
Absolutely! I didn't vote for him personally, but I can certainly see why someone would. His music is some of the best piano music I've ever heard, especially that of a grand scale.
Well I did vote for him! Well said Sorin. Of course Alkan didn't leave anything in the way of symphonic music so his appeal is limited to keyboard fetishists like myself (although one does hear rumours of a lost symphony!) But Chopin didn't really leave much either beyond his solo piano works and it hasn't harmed his reputation unduly; but in the piano universe Alkan is very much amongst the true masters.
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Post subject: Re: CMM 'MONSTER 127' GREATEST COMPOSERS POLL!!
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:49 am
GREAT POSEIDON OF THE DEEPS
Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:45 am Posts: 5668 Location: Los Angeles, California
Melmoth wrote:
...Of course Alkan didn't leave anything in the way of symphonic music so his appeal is limited to keyboard fetishists like myself (although one does hear rumours of a lost symphony!) But Chopin didn't really leave much either beyond his solo piano works and it hasn't harmed his reputation unduly; but in the piano universe Alkan is very much amongst the true masters.
It speaks volumes that he was able to on a single instrument achieve what other composers using a full orchestra and chorus cannot!
Post subject: Re: CMM 'MONSTER 127' GREATEST COMPOSERS POLL!!
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:40 pm
JOVE THE MIGHTY THUNDERER
Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:24 am Posts: 13232 Location: London, England
Feanor wrote:
Brine wrote:
Rod Corkin wrote:
John Cage, William Byrd, Elliot Carter. Who is the undeserving one?
Fine: keep all of these guys, but turf Philip Glass.
For technical reasons only those names I mentioned can be considered. We've had one vote to boot out Bryd and another to boot out Cage. Of course the third option would be to boot out Carter and leave the list as it currently stands. However one thing is certain, no change will be made whilst you are still a lowly Private, you'll need to earn at least one stripe!
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John Cage, William Byrd, Elliot Carter. Who is the undeserving one...
Feanor wrote:
Fine: keep all of these guys, but turf Philip Glass.
For technical reasons only those names I mentioned can be considered. We've had one vote to boot out Bryd and another to boot out Cage. Of course the third option would be to boot out Carter and leave the list as it currently stands. However one thing is certain, no change will be made whilst you are still a lowly Private, you'll need to earn at least one stripe!
I'm working on it. Meanwhile your call, O might Jove.
Post subject: Re: CMM 'MONSTER 127' GREATEST COMPOSERS POLL!!
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:30 pm
JOVE THE MIGHTY THUNDERER
Joined: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:24 am Posts: 13232 Location: London, England
The other names with votes are as follows...
Antonin Dvorák 3 Sergey Prokofiev 2 Richard Strauss 2 John Philip Sousa 2 John Field 2 Jean Sibelius 2 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 2 Franz Liszt 2 Carl Maria von Weber 2 Béla Bartók 2 Anton Bruckner 2 Tomaso Albinoni 1 Thomas Tallis 1 Richard Wagner 1 Marc-Antoine Charpentier 1 Luigi Cherubini 1 Leos Janácek 1 Johann Strauss II 1 Johann Nepomuk Hummel 1 Johann Christian Bach 1 Jean-Philippe Rameau 1 Isaac Albéniz 1 Henry Purcell 1 Guillaume Dufay 1 Giuseppe Verdi 1 Giovanni Gabrieli 1 Gioachino Rossini 1 Georg Philipp Telemann 1 Franz Berwald 1 Ferruccio Busoni 1 Ennio Morricone 1 Domenico Scarlatti 1 Claudio Monteverdi 1 Charles-Valentin Alkan 1 Carl Nielsen 1 Arcangelo Corelli 1 Antonio Salieri 1 Alexander Scriabin 1 Alexander Glazunov 1 Alexander Borodin 1 Aaron Copland 1
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Why not?)
Well said Sorin. Of course Alkan didn't leave anything in the way of symphonic music so his appeal is limited to keyboard fetishists like myself (although one does hear rumours of a lost symphony!) But Chopin didn't really leave much either beyond his solo piano works and it hasn't harmed his reputation unduly; but in the piano universe Alkan is very much amongst the true masters.
Meanwhile your call, O might Jove. 
