What is your favorite classical piece?

[ERCougar]

I bet you didn't even know that Beethoven composed after he became deaf and that Mozart was a child prodigy. Oh snap! You're such a classical music idiot. Take some lessons.

Beethoven was deaf? Shut up! You're so full of crap. How would a deaf man compose music? You have to hear music! Hello!

[Pheidippides]

Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (Great Gate of Kiev)
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa0oKBtFKts[/YOUTUBE]

I liked the Emerson, Lake and Palmer version better.

[beefytee]

Without Rachmaninoff, the world would never have had Lolita. Sergei sponsored and funded Nabokov in the US when Nabokov was a starving emigre.

But he also inspired Celine Dion, so isn't it really a wash?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_by_Myself

[il Padrino Ute]

I bet you didn't even know that Beethoven composed after he became deaf and that Mozart was a child prodigy. Oh snap! You're such a classical music idiot. Take some lessons.

I'm sure nobody knows that Beethoven was a German.

[Katy Lied]

But he also inspired Celine Dion, so isn't it really a wash?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_by_Myself

C'mon Beefy, that musical link is about as tenuous as, say, Frédéric Chopin and Barry Manilow.

[I.J. Reilly]

I'm sure nobody knows that Beethoven was a German.

WHAT?!? But Germans are all Nazi's and I never heard a Nazi make beautiful music. You may have just instigated a paradigm shift in me. I'm gonna have to think about this for a while.

[Katy Lied]

WHAT?!? But Germans are all Nazi's and I never heard a Nazi make beautiful music. You may have just instigated a paradigm shift in me. I'm gonna have to think about this for a while.

You need to sit in the corner and not move until you listen to the entire Ring Cycle. All of it.

[il Padrino Ute]

WHAT?!? But Germans are all Nazi's and I never heard a Nazi make beautiful music. You may have just instigated a paradigm shift in me. I'm gonna have to think about this for a while.

The truth can, at times, be shocking. Especially in the world of music.

[I.J. Reilly]

You need to sit in the corner and not move until you listen to the entire Ring Cycle. All of it.

I accept only Ride of the Valkyries as a true work of art, since that's all I hear in movies. Plus, I reject its German-ness since it was about Norse myth. You won't trick me so easily.

[I.J. Reilly]

The truth can, at times, be shocking. Especially in the world of music.

Next thing I'm know, I'm gonna find out that there are gays out there writing stuff that I like. Sounds like I'll be lighting a bonfire tonight.

[Katy Lied]

I accept only Ride of the Valkyries as a true work of art, since that's all I hear in movies. Plus, I reject its German-ness since it was about Norse myth. You won't trick me so easily.

For your cheeky attitude, you'll need to listen to Twilight of the Gods twice. Götterdämmerung you.

[il Padrino Ute]

Next thing I'm know, I'm gonna find out that there are gays out there writing stuff that I like. Sounds like I'll be lighting a bonfire tonight.

Whoa there.., let's not get carried away with this stuff. Gays involved with music?

Get outta here.

Although, that would explain the more flamboyant style of Divine.

[cowboy]

This has a fiddle, and in my book that makes it classical.

[YOUTUBE]4WCONl73yLE[/YOUTUBE]

[SteelBlue]

Beethoven Piano Concerto #5, especially the adagio movement.

[SeattleUte]

You need to sit in the corner and not move until you listen to the entire Ring Cycle. All of it.

I have tickets to it in August. People arriving from all over the world. Seattle Opera's Ring may be the best in the world outside Bayreuth. Seattle Opera started doing it in the 1960's when it was still out of fashion due to events in the 1930's and '40's. Four long operas in five nights. I went four years ago; they have it every four years like the World Cup. I have also listened to the entire thing as I read the libretto (preparing for four years ago). Very worthwhile.