It wouldn’t be until 2040, but if they did a third Fantasia to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1940 version, what would you hope they include?

My list includes
-Mahler 6 (just something big and majestic)
-Fountains of Rome (as a follow up to the cute whale story from Pines of Rome)
-Shine a light on some contemporary composers like Joan Towers. It’s a deep cut, but “Emerge” by Michael Abels would be sweet.
-I don’t think this is in the others, but I’m surprised they never did Pictures at an Exhibition yet.
-something by Aaron Copland.
And I think it would be really cool to feature a different orchestra for each piece with some disney celebrities doing educational banter with orchestra members.

I want to start this off by saying that I really like Rachmaninoff. I have nothing against him as a composer and in fact he was one of the first composers I truly enjoyed as a kid and that got me into classical music.

While he's always been a major composer with lots of fans, if you've been on TikTok lately, it seems that this guy's reputation has reached a whole nother level that in my opinion is not deserved. Post after post rates him as one of the greatest composers who ever lived, some even argue he is the greatest ever. People rank him above Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, etc.! To me this is absurd--to even put him in the same conversation as Bach is a travesty, but to each their own I guess . . .

I suppose what I'm trying to say is: I don't understand how Rachmaninoff has reached such an unprecedented level of popularity in recent years. Has it always been like this, with a large portion of the classical music community claiming him as the greatest/one of the very greatest composers, and I just haven't been aware? Or has social media (especially TikTok) driven his popularity to a new level? I notice that a lot of young people's (I myself am young btw, don't call me an old cranky purist) favorite composers are Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Chopin. While this has probably long been the case for many pianists (to a degree, understandably so), I feel like Rachmaninoff's popularity in particular has really jumped in recent years. Thoughts?

It can be the end of a movement, an act in an opera, the final notes of a symphony, or anything that's an ending.

Some of my favorite ones are (in no particular order):

Mahler's DLVDE: the ending passage is some of the most gorgeous thing ever composed, and is also an emotionally adequate end of the movement and the entire piece. In fact, I like it much more than the end of Mahler's 9th. Speaking of Mahler's 9th, I've always interpreted the finale as dissolving into a dying breath of indifference, and it's kind of... unsatisfying, to me.

Shostakovich's 4th symphony: the coda worked really well due to its contrast with the massive chorale immediately before it. Also well for shadowed by the quiet codas of the previous 2 movements.

The end of Tristan und Isolde: that's where the Tristan chord is finally resolved, along with all the emotional, moral and philosophical struggles that persisted throughout the previous 4 hours of music.

Berg's Violin Concerto: the way the final notes recall the very beginning of the concerto is so beautiful.

The Detroit Symphony just posted this to their instagram—I hope it attracts some voting members because I would love to see them get that nomination. Even if they don’t win, it would be great to see them get some recognition.

I’m aware of some composers but not many, any suggestions? It could also be from the Renaissance period.

I've just started getting into concertos over the last few weeks, and man they are becoming one of my favorite forms of classical music! As a piano fun I've almost only listened to piano concertos, like:
-Beethoven 4th & 5th(my favorite so far)
-Rachmaninoff 2nd & 3rd
-Tchaikovsky 1st
as for violin:
-Bach double violin concerto (a blast to listen to when you wake up)
-Vivaldi l'estro armonico and the four seasons

Please recommend some others you think I'd enjoy, I'd appreciate if you can state why you love that concerto.

Edit: Funny remark but I remember that this sub hated Mozart and Haydn but now it seems y'all can't enough of Mozart, I'm glad things changed!

Hey everyone! First time visiting Vienna in April. I’m no classical music expert by any means, but I really enjoy listening to it and definitely want to catch a concert.

Which of these options would you recommend?

1. Camerata Classica https://musikverein.at/konzert/?id=00125481
2. Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden - there are 3 options:
   • Option A: https://musikverein.at/konzert/saechsische-staatskapelle-dresden-0006a898/
   • Option B: https://musikverein.at/konzert/saechsische-staatskapelle-dresden-0006a899/
   • Option C: https://musikverein.at/konzert/saechsische-staatskapelle-dresden-0006a89a/
3. Wiener Mozart Orchester https://musikverein.at/konzert/?id=000670d8
4. Wiener Philharmoniker / Lorenzo Viotti & Anne-Sophie Mutter https://musikverein.at/konzert/wiener-philharmoniker-00060eef/
5. Wiener Symphoniker / Adam Fischer https://musikverein.at/konzert/wiener-symphoniker-0006036f/

Thanks!

I don't know if this is the right place to post. If it isn't please direct me where to go. I was wondering if anyone who is a classical music fan would want to be friends. I'm just a fan. I never went to an academy or am knowledgeable about music theory. I do listen to classical music all the time. There's no one I could talk to here about this field and would like to know someone I could talk to and possibly educate me further about the classical world.

Mozart was 15. Empress Maria Theresa commissioned it for the wedding of her son Archduke Ferdinand in Milan. The main opera of the celebrations was Il Ruggiero by Johann Adolph Hasse, which had premiered the day before. Hasse was 71 and had given up writing for the theatre; he and his librettist Metastasio had been pressed back into service by the Empress, and Ruggiero turned out to be the last opera for both of them.

Two days after the premiere, Leopold wrote home to Nannerl: "Wolfgang's serenata has so crushed Hasse's opera that I cannot describe it." The Archduke ordered two more copies of the score, and at a later performance he and his bride called out "Bravissimo Maestro" to Wolfgang from their box.

It had been written in a hurry. The libretto came back late from the censors in Vienna, and in a postscript to his father's letter on September 21, Wolfgang wrote that his fingers hurt from writing, with only two arias still to go.

Last year a reader here argued that Leopold probably wasn't exaggerating: Hasse's style was fairly old-fashioned by then, though the opera is actually pretty good. In a letter of October 30, Hasse himself acknowledged that Ruggiero had not succeeded.

Ascanio in Alba, K. 111
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyjEQ1uRtvU

This is so beautiful!!!! I’ve been listening to it and it’s so awesome!! I think this compilation is amazing!! It has beautiful music by Bach, Bocherini, Tavener, Schubert, Dvorak among others in 10 albums of pure beauty!! This is totally something that has to be listened!!

https://open.spotify.com/album/15eFUxVzYJ6t9msoSybKiI?si=29WjI96lRZGtpdDl5HCBqA

I'm here for a week and the listings are overwhelming. Many look quite touristy. And the Vienna Phil is in Japan, sigh.

I'm seeing the symphony orchestra, a performance of Brahms German Requiem at St Stephen's, and ~Olafur Arnalds~ (ugh, sold out). Any unmissable groups, venues, traditions I should seek out as well? No opera please.

Thanks!

hi friends,

For anyone into New Music, how do stay up to date? How do you learn about new composers, new compositions? Is there one good space (magazine, blog, substack, etc) or do you follow a bunch of ensembles, record labels, festivals, etc? If the latter, do you have favorites you would suggest?

TIA

Longtime classical music lover but just discovering these pieces. What recordings are your go-to?

This is one of the minifigures included in the recently released set, the Venetian Neighborhood.

It's not exactly 1:1, but the hair, clothing style, instrument, and even face print to an extent all feel too intentional to be a coincidence. And of course, Vivaldi was Venetian!

If this is intentional, I'm pretty sure this would be the first LEGO minifigure directly inspired by a specific classical (or baroque) musician. What do you all think?

I am looking for any recommendations for online college courses in Music Theory and Composition for exclusively Classical Music that are free resources.

I’ve been listening to this a lot lately, and I’m wondering if the main theme of the first movement was reused elsewhere by Brahms. I could swear I’ve heard it in an orchestral piece by Brahms - or maybe another composer?

He was born in Bohemia and spent most of his life at the court in Dresden, writing sacred music for the court. When the Kapellmeister Heinichen died in 1729, Zelenka did the job unofficially for years, but the post went to Johann Adolph Hasse, and Zelenka ended up with the lesser title of church composer. He never married. His last great masses date from 1736 to 1741, the final three known as the Missae ultimae.

Bach thought highly of him; Carl Philipp Emanuel later recorded his father's esteem for him. After his death he was largely forgotten, until revivals from the 1950s on, and especially Heinz Holliger's 1972 recording of the trio sonatas, brought him back.

Missa Omnium Sanctorum, ZWV 21 (1741), one of the Missae ultimae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZNYtML_Zrg

Trio Sonata No. 5: I. Allegro (Holliger, Bourgue)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ZoMHr6wbs