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rilke 09-Sep-12, 07:54	German Composers works Name some of your favorites German Composers works.
rilke 09-Sep-12, 20:08	Symphony 9 ( Beethoven) His last symphony, completed in 1824. Beethoven's symphony is one of the best known works on the Western Classical. Among critics it is one of the best and greatest works in music history. The last movement " Ode to the Joy " uses four vocal soloists and a chorus. It is based on a poem written by Friedrich Schiller (1785).
brigadecommander 10-Sep-12, 09:46	Beethoven string Quartet #6 1st Movement young, exuberant, at the beginning of his career. No clouds in sight and ' his ears worked fine. A powerful demonstration of joy and youth. www.youtube.com
obsteve 10-Sep-12, 12:43	Kurt Weill (Seeräuber Jenny, a fine example): www.youtube.com
obsteve 10-Sep-12, 12:47	a fine piece of Verfremdungseffekt... und am der Flipside, Wagner's Götterdämmerung, an immense Gesamkunstwerk, lol! www.youtube.com
brigadecommander 10-Sep-12, 13:44	i like the Wagner!!! but the other is not my cup of tea.So i raise your Gotterdammerung with my favorite Wagner piece 'Wotans Feuerzauber Die Walkure'.www.youtube.com In which two distinct themes(brunhilde and seigfried) are interwoven. A masterpiece!!!!! for those not familiar with the 'ring of the Nibelung'(The other Valkyries assemble on the summit of a mountain, each with a dead hero in her saddlebag. They are astonished when Brünnhilde arrives with Sieglinde, a living woman. She begs them to help, but they dare not defy Wotan. Brünnhilde decides to delay Wotan as Sieglinde flees. She also reveals that Sieglinde is pregnant by Siegmund, and names the unborn son Siegfried. Wotan arrives in wrath and passes judgement on Brünnhilde: she is to be stripped of her Valkyrie status and become a mortal woman, to be held in a magic sleep on the mountain, prey to any man who happens by. Dismayed, the other Valkyries flee. Brünnhilde begs mercy of Wotan for herself, his favorite child. She recounts the courage of Siegmund and her decision to protect him, knowing that was Wotan's true desire. With the words 'Der diese Liebe mir ins Herz gehaucht' (He who breathed this love into me), introducing the key of E major, she identifies her actions as Wotan's true will. Wotan consents to her last request: to encircle the mountaintop with magic flame, which will deter all but the bravest of heroes (who, as shown through the leitmotif, they both know will be the yet unborn Siegfried). Wotan lays Brünnhilde down on a rock and, in a long embrace, kisses her eyes closed into an enchanted sleep. He summons Loge (the Norse demigod of fire) to ignite the circle of flame that will protect her, then slowly departs in sorrow, after pronouncing: "Whosoever fears the point of my spear shall not pass through the fire." The curtain falls as the Magic Fire Music again resolves into E major.
obsteve 12-Sep-12, 15:20	I love it... beautifully introduced... another one of those great pieces that frequently gets abused and parodied, sadly Mozart's Requiem I like, worth listening with headphones... www.youtube.com
brigadecommander 12-Sep-12, 15:41	requiem..... this is one of the finest compositions ever created.
rilke 13-Sep-12, 14:58	Oboe concerto in D major ( Richard Strauss) Written in 1945, and one of his last works near the end of his life. Musically it is a beautiful work.
rilke 25-Oct-12, 14:23	Synphony nr 5 ( Shubert ) Finished in 6 months, October, 1816.

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