Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi.
Georg Philipp Telemann: Ouverture for recorder, strings & b.c. in A minor (TWV 55-a2) - V.
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes.
OrphanPip Wrote:I tend to lean more towards 20th century, people like Shostakovich, or minimalist like Steve Reich.
I'm also fond of French impressionist, like Debussy.
I went to see a so-so production of Verdi's Rigoletto last month. I got tickets for productions of La Boheme and Salome in the Spring that I'm pretty excited for too.
I'd post a video but my post count prohibits me from doing such.
Pip, leave us the URL and we'll post it for you...:biggrin: until you can do it yourself.
I hve not really been into classical music, but I explored so much of other types it was inevetable classical would reach me at some point. My point of introduction was when I found the brilliant Max Richter, much used on BBC4 documetries he is a classical/electronic crossover artist.
More recently I am enjoying The Tone Poems by Jean Sibelius. But I am only really intersted in dark/melancholic classical music. I could not bare anything jolly or livlely. Too camp for me.