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Dante and Beatrice (detail), by Italian painter Salvatore Postiglione (1906).
John William Waterhouse (John Waterhouse) - Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses - 1891, Gallery Oldham, Oldham.
"Daydreaming" by Unknown Artist from the 19th Century.
Dante and Beatrice (detail), by Italian painter Salvatore Postiglione (1906).
Antonio Rotta - La Morte del Pulcino - 1878, MART (Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto), Trento, Italy.
Movies that will make you fall in love with classical music
1. Amadeus
"This was a music I'd never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.”
I can't put into words how amazing this movie is. If you haven't watched it already go and see it. It will teach you more about the transcendental power of music in than almost everything.
2. All the mornings of the world
“So, you’ve discovered that music is not for kings,” Sainte-Colombe says. “Yes,” Marais responds, “I discovered that it’s for God.”
This french film tells us about the healing power of music and it's ability to speak where words fail : "When I first saw Tous les matins du monde in a theater, I remember looking around me when the movie ended, and seeing the entire audience in tears. I have no idea if any of what happened in Tous les matins du monde is true, but on the subject of music, its truth is unshakable."
3. The Pianist
A heartbreaking and highly regarded Film about the jewish Pianists Władysław Szpilman's real life and suffering during the 2nd World war.
4. A late quartet
"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable."
A movie about the difficulties a musical ensemble faces as their Violinist is diagnosed with Parkinson: a sickness that slowly takes away his motion control.
5. Impromptu
A young Hugh Grant plays great composer and Pianist Chopin: the Film focuses on the love story between young Frederic and George Sand.
6. Immortal Beloved
"It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. The listener has no choice. It is like hypnotism"
This movie is too beautiful to put into words. Please watch it and i promise you will be moved to tears: it tells the tragic life story of the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his failed attempts to find true love and meaning
7. The Soloist
This movie is based on the true story of a Journalist helping a sick musician to find his place in the music world again: The plot is based on the story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who developed schizophrenia and became homeless.
Beautiful Opera arias to start your classical music Journey
Below i made a little list for poeple who want to get into Opera (with Links)
1. Nessun Dorma - Giacomo Puccini
~ A total classic for a reason
2. Lascia ch'io pianga - Georg Friedrich Händel
~ "let me weep my cruel fate" - it's breathtakingly beautiful
3. L'ho perduta - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
~ a short musical masterpiece
4. Je crois entendre encore - George Bizet
~ one of the most heartfelt melodies ever written
5. La Habanera - George Bizet
~ almost everyone heard this sassy classic once
6. Un bel di vedremo - Giacomo Puccini
~ another tearjerker by the master of romantic operas
7. Una furtiva lagrima - Geatano Donizetti
~ one of the most romantic arias out there
8. Addio del passato - Giuseppe Verdi
~ a musical farewell
9. Largo al Factotum - Giachino Rossini
~ This is a fun one and a real show off
10. Pourquoi me reveiller - Jules Massenet
~ this is the one for you if you like it dark and dramatic
Mozart and his weird sense of humor
“I wish you good night, shit in your bed all your might.”
"Oh my ass burns like fire.” (To his cousin)
"Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head." - (To his sister)
"To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave." - (To his cousin)
In 1782, Mozart wrote a six-voice canon. The canon’s title translates to “Lick Me In The Ass” :
"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."
“Yesterday, though, we heard the king of farts/ It smelled as sweet as honey tarts/ While it wasn’t in the strongest of voice/ It still came on as a powerful noise.” (To his mother)
There is a whole wiki only dedicated to Mozart and his love for ass jokes:
‘yassified’ classical composers
Well...that looks...wrong
And why does Vivaldi look like one of the Kardashians
Honestly...They could have just kept Liszt the way he was in the first place
Schostakovitch is the only one that kinda works
Clara Schumann already was a boss
Wow...They really did Elgar dirty
The most beautiful theatres from around the world
1. Minack Theatre, Cornwall
2. Seebühne, Bregenz Austria
3. Winter Garden, Toronto Canada
4. Opera City Hall, Tokyo Japan
5. Palau de la Musica, Barcelona Spain
6. The Tampa Theatre, America
The best books involving classical music
Julian Barnes - The noise of time
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Barnes elegantly guides us through the trajectory of Shostakovitch's career, at the same time illuminating the tumultuous evolution of the Soviet Union.
Haruki Murakami - Absolutely on music
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Leo Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder.
Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann's last great novel is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility.
Douglas Hofstadter - Goedel Escher Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
Vikram Seth - An Equal Music
Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggiore Quartet. He has long been haunted, though, by memories of the pianist he loved and left ten years earlier, Julia McNicholl. Now Julia, married and the mother of a small child, unexpectedly reenters his life and the romance flares up once more.
The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein
The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein's musical creativity have been recognized and enjoyed by millions. These lectures, Mr. Bernstein's most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well.
Daniel Levitin - Your Brain on music
This explores cultures in which singing is considered an essential human function, patients who have a rare disorder that prevents them from making sense of music, and scientists studying why two people may not have the same definition of pitch. At every turn, this provocative work unlocks deep secrets about how nature and nurture forge a uniquely human obsession.
"He was like those bronze statues in public parks that, despite one lucky knee rubbed raw by schoolchildren, discolor beautifully until they match the trees"
~ "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer
Ravel - Lever du jour
Daphis et Chloe, 1912
With lips like roses, your words entwine,
In the garden of love, forever mine.