When I revise this Top 50, this piece by Paul Desmond, and played by the Dave Brubeck Band will be added in the Top 50, because it is just so
When I revise this Top 50, this piece by Paul Desmond, and played by the Dave Brubeck Band will be added in the Top 50, because it is just so
Franz Liszt comes in at #19 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with Les Preludes, and with it the birth of the symphonic poem. He didn’t name it a symphonic
Richard Wagner loved the theater. He considered himself a composer of theatrical dramas, rather than operas. This mindset changes the way he viewed his operatic compositions. Wagner was inspired a
Now that I’ve arrived at the Top 20, we get our first entry for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart is a really unique composer because he is an example of a
I wanted to give an honorable mention to Puccini for his great opera, Tosca. Puccini blended a mix of Wagnerian operatic style with Italian bel canto and verismo. Bel canto
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky appears once again on my list of Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with his first attempt at a ballet, in 1876 with Swan Lake. I can’t say how
The separation of lines in music are supposedly drawn bright and clear since the 20th century. Classical music follows this line with these “rules.” Film scores follow with these “rules.”
Gustav Mahler comes in at #22 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical Music with his amazing Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection,” though Mahler was not the one who
I want to give an honorable mention to Igor Stravinsky for his stupendous ballet, Petroushka. Stravinsky hit three home runs right out of the park in the early 20th century
Pyotr Iliych Tchaikovsky is one of Russia’s most successful and well known composers. He wasn’t a child prodigy, but rather chose to become a composer and study music. He excelled