Forgive me if I'm more odd in this episode than usual; it's just that time of the semester. #JusticeForSalieri

@LuisRivera-dg5bu

5 жыл бұрын

Classical Nerd What are you studying and at what level (i.e. undergrad, master’s program etc.)?

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

I'm about to start the final semester of my undergraduate degree in composition, but I definitely have an eye towards master's programs that have a strong emphasis on musicology as well.

@Muchkin2016

3 жыл бұрын

Classical Nerd just had to say I laughed hysterically at this one. Nothing to be ashamed of.

@ThePianoPod

2 жыл бұрын

Justice for Salieri!

I couldn’t agree more with your discussion about child prodigies - they are incredibly common, whereas composers like Mozart are not.

You can certainly argue composer vs. composer on technical merits, accomplishments, etc., but I'll say one thing - if I ever find myself whistling or humming a melody without even realizing it, more often than not, it's Mozart. The man had a gift for melody that, to me, went far beyond anyone else.

Haydn’s 46th Symphony reprises the minuet in its finale - more “cyclical” than anything in the Jupiter Symphony, and composed before it. It may have been Beethoven’s inspiration for doing the same thing in his 5th Symphony.

@detectivehome3318

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! @Richard Atkinson !! Great to see you here!

There’s always a plane in the background with Schoenberg.

It's so difficult to make a good and fair video about "His Majesty Mozart", and you did a brilliant work. A prodigy is different from a genius just because hit it first is not the same as hit it better. Kudos. #JusticeForSalieri

Great video on the life of Mozart. I hope that you'll eventually make longer videos on Bach and Beethoven (at least 30 min.) because these masters deserve more than just three minutes and eight minutes, respectively.

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

I plan to, but the longer videos take more time to put together and I want to make sure the remakes do the figures justice. (Not to mention the several hundred outstanding requests ...)

This is all fascinating. Good job!

Well done. Thank you.

Thanks for making another great video essay!

By God you finally did it

Great video, thank you!

Excellent presentation!!,…..well, I gave Thomas Hill this opinion many other times!….a prehistoric person like me who only had books, records and cassettes for many years appreciates someone who can offer descriptions that have common sense and facts about the times in which Mozart lived!!. Thomas, your explanation regarding Salieri, the “Mozart Effect”, social environment of Mozart’times are extremely valuable. Thank you in the name of music lovers, music therapists, etc., etc….and thanks to You Tube!

Perfect timing with this video, we're studying Mozart in music right now (the magic flute). Could you please do a video on Borodin or Vaughan Williams. (absolutely love your videos by the way (very informative))

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Borodin and Vaughan Williams have moved up in the request pool!

Leopold was a somewhat well-known composer and music teacher in his own right.

His early works (ones written at age 17~23) are not just juvenila. Mozart Masses, Litanies, Vespers | Selection of Best Moments: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eX5tzZeyntecoKw.html

Would like to see you do a presentation on the following: Arthur S. Sullivan. (1847-1900). The Gilbert & Sullivan operas have lasted through several decades. His Tempest music and Symphony in C have become victims of a curious law: They were vitally important in the Victorian Era, and lost their popularity when the Era was complete. Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975). I always thought this composer’s work was the successor to Charles Ives. His score for Hitchcock’s “Psycho” is a classic, yet his film score for “Devil and Daniel Webster” is a masterpiece of recycling American Folk Tunes into a unique composition. His Symphony of 1941 is equally a masterpiece because the dark dissonances of the work are transformed into a roar of major keys in constant revelry-especially E-flat major.

You are the best!

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

I try!

id definitely say that bachs second french suite, and much of his work, does share motives between the movements

Great video! I believe the guy on the picture you used for Süssmayr is actually Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, another composer from that era.

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

It's hard to find pictures of Süssmayr that are high-enough resolution to utilize. I'll be sure to cross-reference images going forward!

enjoyed watching your vid , solemn vespers alone is outstanding imo

Great program! Fresh perspective on Mozart's life and art. What's the rare keyboard piece you mention after the "Dissonance" Quartet? Been trying to search for it phonetically, but not having any luck. Eine Kleine Geeg (sp?). I wanna hear it!

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

I've always heard it referred to as Eine Kleine Gigue, but more technically it's the Gigue in G major, KV 574.

@ignacioclerici5341

2 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicalNerd what are your favorite composers?

@ignacioclerici5341

2 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicalNerd what do you think of Alma Deutscher's music?

#JusticeForSalieri

There is genius composer by name 'Ilaiyarajah' in our Tamil Nadu, India. Your series on 'great composers' would remain incomplete without a mention of his story. Hence, try to complete it, If you can. You will surely be astonished to learn about his musical prowess and his story. Wish you the best of luck.

A true firestarter, twisted firestarter.

can you please do one about Manuel the falla? I'm playing one of his songs and would love to know more about him

@ClassicalNerd

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, yeah, sure, but probably not for a _long_ while: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

dat blur 11:21

Do you have a favorite Mozart biography?

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Not particularly; for the biggest names in music history, I've often found that getting as many different perspectives as you can is the most valuable thing.

When specifically do you want me to request one composer/piece/movement or vote on one on the queue again?

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

My policy is to try to keep the queue as manageable as possible. Under the current system, 136 of your current 137 requests will have to be fulfilled before another could be added. However, I may revise this if the queue begins to shrink faster than it expands (which hasn't ever happened in the history of the channel). Basically, by limiting incoming requests to a maximum of two, I'm trying to make sure everyone has a fair shot to request the composers they _most_ want to see versus the stuff that they _eventually_ want to see. I don't plan on stopping until I've run out of subjects to discuss, and music is so vast that I doubt that'll ever happen.

@seanramsdell4172

5 жыл бұрын

138, but thanks for the feedback.

Kids actually sing Lick My Own Arse sometimes. That actually happened.

I love the clarinet concerto!

0:14 :)

I named my goldfish Mozart.

@definitely_not_sibelius2516

3 жыл бұрын

I named mine Debussy...

@colly7963

3 жыл бұрын

I named my budgie Buster Amadeus Mozart because he used to sing so beautifully every time I played piano.

@hillerychan9483

3 жыл бұрын

@@definitely_not_sibelius2516 I named my cat Depussy

Can you do Salieri actually? #JusticeForSalieri

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Salieri has been given a bump in the request pool. #JusticeForSalieri

Do Henryk Gorecki or Sir John Tavener!

@krismariasy9728

5 жыл бұрын

Or both ;)

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

You're the fourth to request Górecki and the third to request Tavener, which has bumped them both in the request pool: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

I always wondered if the opening of the Dissonance Quartet was a prank of sorts. Don't get me wrong, I love it but it doesn't seem to go anywhere and the music to follow doesn't even remotely match the tone the first bars set up.

Mozart’s music is the most emotionally nuanced and complex. Fight me.

That picture of Mozart is some artist's imagination. Other than a statue of a little boy with a violin, I don't think we have any idea what Mozart looked like. A great composer. Why he gets SO MUCH press around my area on radio, I don't know. I guess he's a top marketing cash cow.

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

I could have used a more historically accurate depiction of Mozart for the video, but unfortunately I am limited to pictures with a high enough resolution. (And regardless, this picture is what pops in peoples' heads when they think "Mozart.")

Mozart’s music is so nobly sad

Do Gerrrsshwin

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

I think maybe the assertion of Haydn being "the grand old style" and Mozart being "the new kid on the block" is maybe not as true as it first seems. They were both working alongside each other as friends and colleagues, innovating enormously in their own way. For example the single largest and greatest proto-romantic work of the period is undoubtedly Haydn's 'The Seasons', and that was to have a MUCH bigger influence on the music of the century to come than most of Mozart's work did, especially because of Beethoven being Haydn's pupil. If anything, I'd say they independently created two schools of romanticism - the dramatic topical one fathered by Haydn (in which Beethoven, Weber, Schumann etc. later partook), and Mozart's more subtle, elegant and precocious style (with Hummel, Süssmayr, Schubert Mendelssohn etc. following in the footsteps). It's essentially more to do with who taught who - although I should highlight that Süssmayr was never really Mozart's student, and was evidently probably not the right man for the job when completing some of the unfinished manuscripts (considering the countless schoolboy errors).

@benmaloney5434

4 жыл бұрын

Also ... the 'dissonance' quartet (which of course, he never intended for it to be called) is really just the tip of an enormous iceberg when it comes to Mozart's unique and creative use of harmony. Check out some of the early operas, also 'Idomeneo', 'Zaide', 'Die Schuldigkeit', 'Thamos', the C Minor mass (I could go on) and your minds will be blown! His best work is the stuff that no one ever talks about (typical) :-)

@benmaloney5434

4 жыл бұрын

And also, K622 is for basset-clarinet, not Bb-clarinet! And he used trombones in Idomeneo, before Don Giovanni was written. There's actually a tenor trombone solo in the very first dramatic work that he wrote. And I'm afraid the story about Allegri's Miserere is VERY unlikely to be true - there's little evidence that it happened.

Mozart was probably famous to be a (at least) good composers in every genre at the time.

6:50 lmao

Check out our new cartoon about Mozart and his life: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e4ibx9mRgdueg5M.html

Imagine a 5 year old kid listening to Don Giovanni overture or The D minor Requiem and like "Hmm yeah i'm getting Intelligent." Stonks

@ClassicalNerd

3 жыл бұрын

stonks 📈

@ramprasada7451

3 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicalNerd #justiceforsalieri a good composer

12:23 I laughed very hard 🤣

I'm a liebhaber lol

I’m sure I could beat Mozart in a fist fight, though he is a very good composer, so I wouldn’t want to do so.

Technically Mozart was not born in Austria. He was born in the Holy Roman Empire.

I think Salieri is very underrated

Mozart was like the OG pop star whereas Beethoven was like the OG rock star.

Much of Mozart's life is embellished. And the truth is he was not known outside of the aristocracy until after his death. Leopold was a self promoter, propping up Wolfgang by touring. As mentioned in the video, people were doubtful in Vienna and London that Mozart was a child prodigy. Despite his output, much of the music of Mozart may not really be by Mozart. This is why so many corrections or re-numberings in the Kochel Catalogue have been made. It's also believed that Mozart had other composers working with him on operas such as The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute. Not saying Mozart wasn't talented, but the folklore that surrounds his biography has evolved via rumor and the desire to create an iconic image of the W.A.M. man.

Do you really have to pronounce his first name as volfgang? A bit on the pretentious side.

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

I mean ... that _is_ how it's pronounced. Besides, if I _didn't,_ I'd have plenty of comments critiquing my mispronunciation.

@evanwise7131

3 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicalNerd pretentiousness by definition is the action or air of pretending one knows about a topic which one does not. Therefore, It’s not pretentious if you know what you are talking about! 🤛🏻🎤