Alkan dying from his bookshelf
Franck and MacDowell getting hit hy carriages
Leclair getting murdered at his house
Lekeu dying after eating something
Vivier’s murder

Any others?

Charles Ives made his living in insurance, not music. After Yale he worked for Mutual Life, and he and his friend Julian Myrick later started an agency of their own, which ran until Ives retired in 1930. He composed alongside it.

His Third Symphony, "The Camp Meeting," was written decades before anyone played it. The first performance was in New York on April 5, 1946, conducted by Lou Harrison, and the symphony won the Pulitzer Prize for Music the following year. By then Ives, in his early seventies, had written very little for years. Accounts say he waved the prize off, saying prizes are for boys and he was grown up, and that he gave the money away, partly to Harrison.

Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting" (The Orchestra Now, James Bagwell, 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd50AGwaYOo

I wonder why this entire genre of American 20th-century Neo-classical orchestral music written by composers such as: Peter Mennin, Walter Piston, Harold Shapero, Roy Harris, George Antheil etc. is almost never played in concert anymore? I think these composers produced some incredible, highly sophisticated symphonic works, yet they seem almost completely absent from modern concert hall programs and orchestra seasons.

A few questions/thoughts:

1. Why do you think this repertoire fell out of favor so drastically?
2. Is it a marketing or box-office risk?
3. Which specific pieces or recordings from these composers do you think deserve a permanent spot in the standard orchestral canon?

I know that she has also a background as a classical pianist. In any case, I have been listening to some of her compositions lately and in my opinion, her experiments are really interesting

Improvised in Bb minor

Recently, I've been listening to some game OSTs that feature arrangements of classical music. This got me thinking about how classical music is used in video game soundtracks. As an avid classical music and video game soundtrack listener, it's always nice to hear a familiar classical piece pop up unexpectedly in a soundtrack or to hear how the music has been arranged for a game.

From soundtracks I've listened to, here are the ones I've noticed:

- Hirozuka Tanaka using the Can Can by Jacques Offenbach for the Super Mario Land Invincibility BGM.

- Hirozuka Tanaka using Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky and the Carmen Overture by Georges Bizet in Tetris (NES and Game Boy).

- Spiralmouth using The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II in Crash Twinsanity.

- Yukio Kaneoka using the opening of Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the Game Start music in the NES version of arcade Mario Bros.

- The Sims 3 using several classical pieces including Handel's Water Music, Suk's Barcarolle, Schubert's Trout Piano Quintet, Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 6, Franck's Violin Sonata and a few pieces by Mozart (either Piano Sonatas or Divertimento no. 17).

- Fauré's Dolly Suite Berceuse used in the Wii photo channel slideshow music.

Are there any other instances of classical music being arranged for video game soundtracks that anyone has noticed? It would be interesting to find out and hear some of them.

Bach - Little Fugue in G minor BWV 578 - Schouten | Netherlands Bach Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vITIeoxcfdM

Looking for reviews to know if worth doing in 2027

I play the Persian santur and will start practicing this piece. It will be the first time I play a piece in the Western classical tradition with this instrument. I find the music very powerful. Hope you enjoy it.

For any fellow Mozart fans, I'd like to share my biggest project ever as a composer. For the past five years, I've been working on a full setting of the Catholic Mass in the general style and scope of Mozart's K. 427. The full work is now finished, totaling about 70 minutes of music.

I've been a great admirer of Mozart since my early teens, and for half of my life I've been closely studying his musical language with the aim of matching his level of craftsmanship as closely as I can. This mass is the ultimate product of this endeavor: a piece where I've striven to emulate the mature Mozartian style with all of its rhetorical nuances to the best of my abilities, and challenged myself to write some of the best music I've written.

All movements have been posted as score videos on YouTube. Here's a link to the full playlist for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQny7UMKygHbZh7ueP6IapMKldA6JjtNc

I have a listening test coming up soon and instead of just memorizing everything we've seen, I'd like to actually approach the songs critically and get more familiar with the styles. There's a bunch of different stuff I struggle with so I thought I would just write all of them down and if you can help with one of them it'd be very appreciated.

- I need a bunch of songs of early renaissance that use the double leading tone cadence to get its sound stuck in my head

- I need a bunch of songs by Josquin that use pair of duos and very varying texture

- I need a bunch of songs of late renaissance that use less contrasting texture (then Josquin) and make use of musica ficta

- I need help/tips for differencing french chanson, netherlandish chanson, and italian and english madrigal (other then just the language). With examples if possible

- I need help recognizing renaissance motets, with examples if possible

Thank you!

Musicians who post video of your performances on social What software do you use to edit your content?

Filmora is great for video, it's pretty limited for cleaning up audio. Looking to remove background hum, that sort of thing. Any recommendations?

A great long time ago, in a high school humanities class,the teacher played the overture to Meistersinger, with i think a final long chord that shifted and modulated beautifully. I do recall that he said most recordings omitted that chord because it was so long.

I'm just rediscovering my love of classical music, and remembered this. Does anyone know what I'm talking about, and can point me to a recording of the full overture?

ETA ok, what I'm remembering isnt from Meistersinger after all. Checking out the Mahler from the comments.

Ever thought of wine tasting while listening to Liszt’s formidable Sonata in B minor in a pitch-dark cellar lit by nothing but two candles?

This is not Napa Valley but a private subterranean wine club in downtown west Shanghai. On a cool autumn evening at EPM Vintage & Club, composer and pianist Sansui played Liszt’s Sonata in B minor on a baby grand Kawai transported to the basement by eight workers, in a programme entirely of her own choosing.

Some say that given the steep stairs and narrow corridor, the piano might well stay there for good.

Wine club owner Simon told me that the music series had been suspended for six months. It resumed last week, with the piano now in place and a pianist he had met at jam sessions at the Artist la Pie bakery.

More and more businesses in Shanghai are embracing the concept of the “public piano,” encouraging music sharing and impromptu sessions from amateur musicians as a way to attract new customers and boost sales.

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There are (at least) two series of recordings of Arturo Toscanini conducting Beethoven's nine symphonies. As a boy (about 1960) I started listening to one of them. It'snot the 1939 series, but the ones performed in the early 1950s or so, now enshrined in RCA Victor Gold Seal recordings, on CD.

Anyway, that one has a problem in measure 45 of the second movement of Symphony Two. That movement is in 3 / 8 time. That measure contains two supposedly identical attacks, followed by a rest. In the score, they're identical. As performed, the second attack is sour. Someone is off.

My question: which instrument blew it?