People keep asking for my 100 Symphonies in 100 Days List! Here it is with the recordings I picked and what I thought about them. If you want to do a similar challenge, you don't have to listen to the same symphonies. For example, we had 50 pick your own and just set a certain # of symphonies by each composer (or era or gender, for example).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ArjqMDh-vZ54dGs3Y3ppcXZTV2NfVzIyb1U2T0F4Rmc&single=true&gid=4&output=html
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I never blogged in August. It was a very busy month. At the beginning of the month I listened to composers from "National Schools". From 1830-1950, as "modern nation states emerged, music for many composers became a means of asserting their national identity."
Some more popular composers that can fall into this category:
- Elgar (British)
- Sibelius (Scandinavian)
- Vaughn Williams (British)
- Rachmaninoff (Russian)
Many of these composers used folk music in their classical compositions. New composers I found and liked:
- Glinka (Russian)
- Carl Nielsen (Scandinavian) He is a new favorite of mine!
I am in the modern period---and I'm enjoying it more than I thought!
Paula M.....
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