“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” - Igor Stravinsky
“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.” - Edvard Grieg
“Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them.” - Richard Strauss
“He’d be better off shovelling snow than scribbling on manuscript paper.” - Richard Strauss on Schoenberg
“I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.” - Ludvig van Beethoven
“I have written a chorale both sober and suitable. In it I have put everything I know about boredom. I dedicate this to those who do not like me.” - Erik Satie
“ Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.” - Gioacchino Rossini
“What a good thing this isn’t music.” - Gioacchino Rossini on Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
“Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no singers!” - Gioacchino Rossini
“In opera there is always too much singing.” - Claude Debussy
“Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!” - Johann Sebastian Bach
“Listening to the 5th Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.” - Aaron Copland
“The audience expected something big, something colossal, but they were served instead with some agitated water in a saucer.” - Louis Schnieder on Debussy’s La Mer
“He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.” - Clara Schumann on Liszt
“What a giftless bastard!” - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on Brahms
“Handel is only fourth rate. He is not even interesting.” - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Bach on the wrong notes” - Sergei Prokofiev on Stravinsky
And, saving the best for last…
“Lick my ass up and down” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Feel free to add more! (Also please don’t think that I agree with all of these, I am a huge fan of Symphonie Fantastique and La Mer!!)
“I am in the smallest room in my house. Your review is in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.” - Max Reger
Whoever thought that classical musicians/composers were old, boring, dead people clearly do not understand the amount of salt there is to go around here.
Mozart literally wrote two pieces entitled ‘Lick me in the Ass’ and ‘Lick My Ass Nice and Clean’ and the lyrics to the latter, translated from the original German, are probably:
Lick my ass nicely, lick it nice and clean, nice and clean, lick my ass. That’s a greasy desire, nicely buttered, like the licking of roast meat, my daily activity. Three will lick more than two, come on, just try it, and lick, lick, lick. Everybody lick his own ass himself.
So, there, use this #RedrawReigen freely and for your enjoyment! I did my own so… Btw, in the last meme Reigen is singing Refrain Boy, the Mob Psycho100 first ending, it’s really beautiful and gives me a lot of feels ;////;
i’ve gotten rly into classical music lately and i think i’m turning into my grandma. i’m not saying it’s a bad thing she’s a bad bitch but i thought it was interesting
Hélène Grimaud – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23: II. Adagio (via: Deutsche Grammophon | youtube)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) Radoslaw Szulc (conductor) Piano Concerto No.23, 2. Adagio Hélène Grimaud Radoslaw Szulc Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio / Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Prinzregententheater, Munich, Germany
Me: But Hamilton is an opera and I know you like that.
Them:
Me:
Them:Wait what
Them: No I mean operatic singing opera. Not a musical in which the entire production is sung opera.
Me:Oh okay that’s different then. Why?
Them: Because I can’t understand any of it.
Me: Are you under the impression that you’re supposed to understand opera?
Them:Then why do you watch it?
Me: It’s like extreme sports you can vibe to.
Them:…
Them:What?
Them: There’s no way that opera can be that impressive or difficult.
Me:
Them: Holy sh*t
Opera is super physical!
I’ve yet to have the fortune of costuming one, but one thing I learned in school is opera requires lots of special design/construction considerations. You need to accommodate the movement of extremely large, flexible, and powerful chests!
I’ve heard stories about ladies busting the seams of steel boned corsets with the sheer force of their expanding lungs.
A little sketch of Mr Michael Sheen’s Mozart, in the style of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s self portraits. That 90s production of Amadeus seemed very spectacular.
The fleshtone in a lot of Reynolds’s paintings faded severely because of the use of fugitive colours like carmine. But I think the lack of rosy cheeks intensifies the drama sometimes since the warm/cool contrast becomes even more stark…
Man, your work is always mindblowing, and you deserve more notes!
Following yesterday’s Lacrimosa I thought of posting a different sound culled from the treasure chest of Mozart’s genius. Here’s Diana Damrau singing Mozart’s “Queen of the Night” aria from his opera The Magic Flute.
As one of the comments attached to the video says: “I don’t know which is more amazing, that a human being could conceive of and write this, or that any other human being could perform it.”
if you’re wondering what she is saying, here are the here are the lyrics in German:
Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen, Tod und Verzweiflung flammet um mich her! Fühlt nicht durch dich Sarastro Todesschmerzen, So bist du meine Tochter nimmermehr. Verstossen sei auf ewig, Verlassen sei auf ewig, Zertrümmert sei'n auf ewig Alle Bande der Natur Wenn nicht durch dich! Sarastro wird erblassen! Hört, Rachegötter, Hört der Mutter Schwur!
And here they are in English:
The vengeance of Hell boils in my heart, Death and despair flame about me! If Sarastro does not through you feel The pain of death, Then you will be my daughter nevermore. Disowned may you be forever, Abandoned may you be forever, Destroyed be forever All the bonds of nature, If not through you Sarastro becomes pale! Hear, Gods of Revenge, Hear a mother’s oath!
To give some context to her anger, the aria comes at a moment in the opera when the Queen’s power and position is threatened by the sorcerer Sarastro, whose brotherhood her daughter Pamina is thinking about joining.
Today marks Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 266th birthday. A haunting piece of music that will live forever is the Lacrimosa from his Requiem in D minor. As you celebrate his life listen… listen with the ears of your heart, listen with your whole body, and let the listening carry you into the heart of Love.
Lacrimosa dies illa Qua resurget ex favilla Judicandus homo reus
Lacrimosa dies illa Qua resurget ex favilla Judicandus homo reus:
Huic ergo parce Deus Pie Jesu, Jesu Domine
Dona eis requiem Dona eis requiem
Amen
One tentative translation:
Tearful shall be that day, When from the ashes shall arise The sinful man to be judged.
Tearful shall be that day, When from the ashes shall arise The sinful man to be judged.
Unbeknownst to most historians, baked beans were discovered by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (played by Plato) in 1781. They are, after all, the musical fruit. .
