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One of my favorite things about the modern perspective of Chopin as a person is this notion that he was super introverted and shy and hated being around a lot of ppl. While that's true for the last few years of his life when he was very sick and struggled just to get thru the day, for most of his life he was an absolute menace. He loved to socialize, he thrived on attention, loved to go to parties, he went out so much his friends and family thought he might die if he didn't get some sleep. His partner wrote letters to his friends in the city begging them to come visit him in her country home because he was dying of boredom. He was highly socialized from a very young age in a way most of us would find intimidating today. His poor long suffering family just trying to get him to stay home and get some rest and stop spending all his money. And for what? For the 21st century to paint him as a shy innocent introvert just playing some nice music in the attic. He's cackling from beyond the grave rn, I can literally hear it

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It’s crazy how people from 1791 and 2024 both know how it feels when Mozart drops a new track

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Baba-Gaga💅

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THIS IS SO TRUE

guy who's who listened to 1 classical piece: my favorite composer is mozart

guy who's listened to 100 classical pieces: my favorite composer is Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, creator of Opus Clavicembalisticum, who also restricted the performance of his music

guy who's listened to 1000 classical pieces: my favorite composer is mozart

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I know Chopin was giggling in his head when he came up with that comeback

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The Wagner+Liszt relationship is so funny to me because it was consistently like Wagner going off on “you and I are the future of all music and will bring forth an era of greatness!” tangents (and some controversy…) and Liszt was always just kinda like “hey Rich have you taken your meds yet today?🤗”

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My orchestra is currently using a Shostakovich drawing as our mascot!😂🎼

(we are playing Shosty 9)

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Okay so I got really bored and decided to rank all of Chopin’s etudes (10 and 25) from favorite to least favorite! (although they are all ungodly perfect so even the LAST one on the list is godtier). Also just fyi this list has no real musical thought/analysis behind it except for personal preference since Chopin is my favorite composer xD

1. Op 25 no 1 (Harp Study)✨

2. Op 10 no 3 (Tristesse)

3. Op 10 no 10

4. Op 25 no 2 (The Bees)

5. Op 25 no 8 (Sixths)

6. Op 10 no 4 (Torrent)

7. Op 10 no 2 (Chromatic)

8. Op 10 no 1 (Waterfall)

9. Op 25 no 11 (Winter Wind)

10. Op 25 no 12 (Ocean)

11. Op 25 no 4 (Paganini)

12. Op 25 no 6 (Thirds)…scariest piece in the world mind you

13. Op 25 no 3 (The Horsemen)

14. Op 10 no 5 (Black Keys)

15. Op 10 no 12 (Revolutionary)

16. Op 10 no 11 (Arpeggio)

17. Op 10 no 8 (Sunshine)

18. Op 25 no 9

19. Op 25 no 5 (Wrong Note)

20. Op 10 no 9

21. Op 25 no 7 (Cello)

22. Op 10 no 7 (Toccata)

23. Op 10 no 6 (Lament)

24. Op 25 no 1 (Octave)

AHHH this was so hard to do!….I love all of these pieces🙏 Cheers to scales!

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“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” -Frederic Chopin

“Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.” -Maurice Ravel

“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt” -Sergei Rachmaninoff

“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.” -Igor Stravinsky

“Music should humbly seek to please; within these limits great beauty may perhaps be found. Extreme complication is contrary to art. Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.” -Claude Debussy

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Chopin’s fugue sends me spiraling because even one of the best composers in the world somehow also messed up counterpoint in a school assignment💪