What piece of classical music do you like?

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Shostakovich

Waltz II from Jazz Suite




String Quartet no. 8 II



Symphony no. 14 (The Suicide)

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Nathan Gunn in Britten's Billy Budd

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Bruno Maderna: Serenata No.2




Bruno Maderna (21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian conductor and composer.

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Hugo Wolf : "Der Feuerreiter" (Orchesterlieder) with Chorus




Hugo Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in technique.

Though he had several bursts of extraordinary productivity, particularly in 1888 and 1889, depression frequently interrupted his creative periods, and his last composition was written in 1898, before he died of syphilis.

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Some women composers tonite folks.

Agathe Backer-Grøndahl - Two Piano Pieces




Agathe Backer-Grøndahl (1 December 1847 – 4 June 1907) was a Norwegian pianist and composer.

She was born in Holmestrand, but in 1857 moved with her family to Oslo, where she studied with Otto Winther-Hjelm, Halfdan Kjerulf and Ludvig Mathias Lindeman. From 1865 she studied in Berlin, where she won fame with her interpretation of Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto. Later she studied with Hans von Bülow in Florence, and Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1873. She married the conductor Olams Andreas Grøndahl in 1875, and was generally known thereafter as Agathe Backer-Grøndahl.

Backer-Grøndahl composed in total some 400 pieces spanning seventy opus numbers, and was a prominent character on the Norwegian musical scene; she was a close friend of Edvard Grieg. Later in life she became almost completely deaf, and was forced to give up her career as a performing artist.
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl died in Oslo at the age of 59. She is chiefly remembered for her piano pieces and songs.

Her sister was Harriet Backer, the famous painter.

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Clara Schumann Pianoconcerto in A minor, Op. 7 - Allegro maestoso




Clara Schumann (née Clara Josephine Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era. She exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital and the tastes of the listening public. Her husband was the composer Robert Schumann. She and her husband encouraged Johannes Brahms, and she was the first pianist to give public performances of some of Brahms' works, notably the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel - Lied: Larghetto from Song Without Words, Op. 8, No.3




Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847), later Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. She was the grandmother of the philosopher Paul Hensel and the mathematician Kurt Hensel.

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Amy Beach "Gaelic" Symphony Op 32 I. Allegro con Fuoco (1/5)




Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.

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John Knowles Paine - Oedipus Tyrannus Prelude




John Knowles Paine (January 9, 1839 – April 25, 1906), was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music.

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Dudley Buck - Festival Ouverture on the Star Spangled Banner




Dudley Buck (March 10, 1839 – October 6, 1909) was an American composer, organist, and writer on music. He published several books, most notably the Dictionary of Musical Terms and Influence of the Organ in History, which was published in New York in 1882. He is best known today for his organ composition, Concert Variations on the Star-Spangled Banner, Op. 23, which was later arranged into an orchestral version.