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I’m going to paraphrase for a bit but when I think of Verdi, I think of a very respectable long life well lived. Here’s the paraphrase that I think applies to this composer: he lived and worked in a major historical context for his nation, and he came to create a internationally renowned culture for this new nation, and also just one of Italy’s biggest political advocates, earning a spot in the government, I believe . But ranging from his early tragedies, to his personal scandals, to basic political stuff, it was definitely far from an easy battle. And adding to this description of him, wrote some of the greatest operas that have stood the test of time in the canon. And even created a retirement home for musicians out of his wealth that he earned.

So! I am a young adult who lives in Greenville SC, who loves to take day trips to Western North Carolina and even Tennessee and then drive back.

Examples have been :

4/12 going to Asheville for the day
4/19 going to Johnson City-Grandfather Mountain-Greenville
5/9 going with a friend up to Sylva North Carolina and back (backroads-US 64/23) (back to Greenville: 74-40-26-25)
And then now 5/16: going to Knoxville through the gorge of I-40 because I want to check out what it looks like, and Knoxville is a decent city.

Well….on May 21st, i’m driving down to my mom‘s family (grandparents first in Gulfport MS ranging from 5/21-6/14) then up to Brandon MS the 14-30.

And because I have that free time (besides various family interactions) I want some day trips to do because I’m gonna get bored being in the same city all day for two weeks. Please give me some suggestions

Mine is Mozart’s K 452 in E- flat Major and Beethoven’s modeled off of that.

Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Brahms, Krommer, Myslivecek and Smetana are mine. Whats yours?

I like The Bartered Bride one from 2 weeks ago that was recently mentioned. I just enjoy the opera to death wether I like it or not. Lots of people ignorant to classical music have likely heard the overtures and dances at one point (kind of like how Carmen is, except Carmen is far from festive). But yeah! I was not disappointed

Flotow’s Martha, Albert Lortzing works are another, and also Smetana’s The Bartered Bride.

I do consider Martha and also Lortzing proto-operetta if that makes sense. Me and a friend agree.

“Treat Lortzing like Offenbach or Sullivan. That’s his place in the repertoire” - acquaintance

I feel they’re much more major than people give them credit for, especially for czech opera which is getting a revival. Even Slavic opera is getting revived.

His operatic output ranges from romantic comedies, to tragedy, to festive nationalistic works.

Who are some 20th century composers who “evolved a language of music which is distinct to their own aesthetic and which are successful at expressing what they want to express”

I heard it somewhere and thought it might be interesting what you pop up with.

Im pulling from a meme on this subreddit but:
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Saint Nicholas
- Nelson Mandela
- Galileo Galilei
- Alan Turing

Tolkein calling out Martin being a phony (pirate) even stealing his R. R.

Washington turning Wallace into a “red coat”

On one hand the rebellion, on the other hand “oh wait”.

(“Also when I slitherine a sister, it isn’t mine”)

Hummel, and Early Schubert are some examples.

That is something I noticed when book discussions come up. Everyone just recommends him happily but never juicy academic books/authors (my tastes) about broader phenomena in music or just composer biographies (Julius rushton has the mozart one). Then you get Paul Griffiths, and Leon Platinga and John Daverio, etc.

Mine is Tsar Sultan for the preludes and also Flight of thr Bumblebee. Probably Christmas Eve for its polonaise too.

Mine is The Pearl Fishers

But L’Africaine and Lakmé get mentioned a lot too. Whats yours?

I like the four seasons, l’estro armonico by vivaldi.
It sounds so experimental cause it formally is.
Corelli’s op 6 too

Also Locatelli Violin Concerti are eccentric too. They have capriccios in them.

Some albinoni op 2. Stuff

I would personally be excited to see a new huge interstate corridor in my lifetime.

Who is a composer that you really like that is seen as a major conposer and that most people dont have anything bad to say about. But nobody is willing to explore more of their output beyond their famous pieces, and you sadly have an idea why?

Generic overused topic, but its that time again. Free for all so interpret it how you want.

Interpret it how you want. Its a free for all.

My case is, my mom and that my great grandfather fought in World War II with his twins under Patton.