#mendelssohn

[masonyin]

50 composers

[symphonybracket]

The symphony bracket is here!

This is how voting will proceed:

Beginning on September 1, one poll (2 symphonies) will be posted per day. The poll duration will be 7 days.

The reason for the slow posting will be to give voters time to listen, in case one or both symphonies is new to them!

There are 64 symphonies in the bracket, meaning 32 polls.

Happy voting!

Left Side:

Mahler 2 vs Prokofiev 5

Bruckner 8 vs Mozart 10

Mahler 10 vs Schubert 8

Pejačević 1 vs Beethoven 9

Shostakovich 7 vs Glière 3

Beethoven 5 vs Tchaikovsky 6

Mahler 1 vs Sibelius 2

Beethoven 8 vs Vaughan Williams 2

Copland 3 vs Beach Gaelic

Beethoven 6 vs Dvořák 7

Borodin 2 vs Saint-Saëns 3

Mendelssohn 4 vs Beethoven 3

Rachmaninoff 2 vs Kalinnikov 2

Prokofiev 1 vs Rachmaninoff 1

Emilie Mayer 2 vs Vaughan Williams 7

Haydn 75 vs Dvořák 8

Right Side:

Mahler 5 vs Polymath 1

Corigliano 1 vs Ives Universe

Price 1 vs Shostakovich 5

Mahler 6 vs Sibelius 5

Prokofiev 7 vs Mendelssohn 5

Shostakovich 11 vs Mahler 3

Shostakovich 9 vs Ives 4

Berlioz Symphony Fantastique vs Britten Simple Symphony

Vaughan Williams 1 vs Tchaikovsky 4

Shostakovich 10 vs Hovhaness 4

Beethoven 7 vs Grant Still 2

Dvořák 9 vs Brahms 1

Brahms 2 vs Maslanka 4

Brahms 3 vs Tchaikovsky 1

Tchaikovsky 5 vs Mozart 40

[angeryed]

Most heartwarming things about every composer ❤️

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Mendelssohn: the profound respect he had for others

The way he’s so cordial with strangers and even the people he dislikes

Man always remembers his manners and acts cordial as his family has taught him

And on occasions, his bursts of excitement to the point of switching languages highlights his joy to see who his loves

From the 1830's when he was in his 20s: “his excitement was increased so fearfully … that when the family was assembled … he began to talk incoherently in English.”

“His attachment to Mademoiselle Lind’s genius as a singer was unbounded, as was his desire for her success.” About Mendelssohn’s attitude to his wife

The amount of passion letters he wrote may be destroyed, but how his wife described him spoke it all: “He was the only person who brought fulfilment to my spirit, and almost as soon as I found him I lost him again.” ๐·°(৹˃̵﹏˂̵৹)°·๐ the feels bro

Recommended piece: Op. 34 No. 2

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Chopin: his love for family

Despite his disrespect and uncalled for criticism towards other composers, he still cares about his homeland

Even in his deathbed, he asked a soprano to sing the Polish national anthem

And he sent his siblings letters everyday when he was out of town

And through his ‘love’ letters to his friend, Tytus, you can tell he was passionate (;

“You don’t like being kissed. Please allow me to do so today. You have to pay for the dirty dream I had about you last night.” 👀 Chopin to Tytus — his ‘best friend’

We might never know if he actually meant it or if it was social etiquette back then, but the speculation is still there

Recommended pieces: Op. 22

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Liszt: everything about him

this man truly was an underrated jewel in the classical word

He was generous to the point where he went broke from teaching music free of charge and holding charity concerts all the time

People from his and our time both misunderstand him for being a womaniser, but he was more than that

He never disrespected any female composers and even when he criticised by his contemporaries, he always kept his cool and even complimented some of them

When Chopin criticised him for playing his nocturnes the wrong anr demanded an apology, Liszt still continued to admire him

Composer chivalry fr.

Recommended pieces: Totentanz

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Tchaikovsky: his devotion and mellow kindness

He was sweet and shy. Unlike Chopin.

Having only a few close friends and a tightly-knit family, he was fiercely loyal and to whom he loved.

As a gay man in the conservative 19th century Russia, he could only seek solace with his closest friends — his sister being the closest.

When his sister passed, all he could was to dedicate the entire Nutcracker Ballet to her as a part of his self-expression died with her.

And she meant a lot to him. Not only a part of himself was buried, the fact he loved her so much despite his depression and dissatisfaction towards his life, showed how close he was to his family.

Recommended piece: Pas de Deux (it showed his lonely yearning for love in my interpretation; those whimsical melodies and how he missed both sisterly and romantic love)

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Beethoven: man pulled 2015 pranks in the 19th century

Even though he scowled and raged throughout his life, he pulled pranks and laughed when his guests fell for it

He hid behind the door and scared his guests whenever they went through it

Laughing at their annoyed faces, he continued to turn annoyance to offence when he made his friends the butt of his jokes

To further gouge tears from his grumpy little face, he made more short songs solely as jokes about them

Besides being a hopeless romantic who made Fur Elise as a way to diss Elise, he wrote lyrics, “we all agree that you are the biggest ass” when joking about his violinist friend

Beethoven was either a great or absolutely horrible friend to have

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Shostakovich: a genuinely good guy

Every lonely person’s wet dream

Showing up on time, being nice back to everyone who was nice to him alongside living life the normal way despite being a composer, he never raised any aggression tendencies like other composers (take notes Beethoven :/)

Love extended beyond family and friends. He threaded and worded his letters with kindness and manners, especially to those who asked him for advice

Even under his intense stress and anxiety during the Soviet Union’s surveillance, the man loved his family.

And that in itself was impressive.

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Author’s note: I may not have written a recommended piece for all of them because I am not well-versed in most of their pieces yet

Do tell me what composers to do. I am happy to write about them <:

Much feedback is appreciated ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚

[not-from-amazon]

random romantic era composers dump ✨✨

[yemu1102]

Sorry for the disturbance my dearest masters, I just want to figure out how many great composers and musicians, and their family and friends have come to the afterlife.

If there are someone I accidentally missed, please let me know and I will add their names to this list. The list is arranged in no particular order, and I show my respect to everyone.

Here we go——

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart @wolfgangus-mozartus , and his mini form @bratty-prodigys and the father Johann Georg Leopold Mozart @fatherofgeniuses

Antonio Salieri @antoniosalieri-official

Ludwig van Beethoven @beethoes and @beethoven-sir

Franz Liszt @franzliszt-official , and his lover Carolyne Sayn Wittgenstein @carolyne-sayn-wittgenstein and his student Marie Louise Baskerville @marie-louise-baskerville (thanks for Monsieur Chopin’s help!)

Fryderyk Chopin @chopinski-official , and his sister Emilia Chopin @emilia-chopin ; his student (also) Marie Louise Baskerville @marie-louise-baskerville and Madame George Sand @georgesand-official your name will appear on the list of writers too if there are more writers come here…I promise…

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy @mendyson , and his sister Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn @fanny-mendelssohn-official and his wife Cécile Mendelssohn @cecile-mendelssohn (thanks for miss Baskerville’s help!)

Hector Louis Berlioz @berliozussy-official

Robert Schumann @robertschumann-official and Clara Schumann @claraschumann-official

Richard Wagner @richardwagnermage and @richardwagner-official (maybe?)thanks for Litz’s help!

Johannes Brahms @johannesbrahms-official

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky @tchaikovsky-pyotr

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff @s-v-rachmaninoff

Aram Ilitch Khatchaturian @aram-khachaturian

Sergei Prokofiev @sprkfv

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich @shosty-official

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie @eric-al-satie

TBC…

[gasparodasalo]

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) - Piano Quartet No. 1 in c-minor, Op. 1, I. Allegro vivace. Performed by The Atlantis Ensemble on period instruments.

[chelleinyy]

Based on an anecdote from Liszt where he tells us about the time Mendelssohn drew a caricature of him as the devil with 5 hammers for fingers 🫶

Here's the anecdote:

This is so fun to imagine

[blackswaneuroparedux]

It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.

- Fanny Mendelssohn

The Mendelssohns grew up making music together in Berlin at the beginning of the 19th century. Felix, younger by four years, became one of history's most brilliant composers. Fanny, a strong-willed pianist but worried about her worth as a composer, has been neglected. Still, as Felix's career soared and Fanny struggled to publish her pieces, the two remained close. Early on, Fanny helped Felix with structuring some of his pieces. Later, Felix was supportive of his sister but, like their father, discouraged her from actually publishing her music. Fanny wrote a String Quartet in E-flat major in 1834. Despite this and other than playing and conducting in salon settings, Fanny made just one public appearance, as soloist in her brother's First Piano Concerto at a benefit concert. Very little of her music was published in her lifetime, and much of it today remains privately owned.

Fanny died suddenly of a stroke at age 41, in 1847. She died in Berlin of complications from a stroke suffered while leading a rehearsal of a cantata by her brother Felix, "The First Walpurgis Night."

Felix was crushed. You can hear the pain he poured into the String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, completed in September of that year. Felix Mendelssohn's music is always a joy. He was an optimist by nature. But in this quartet you feel immediately that there's something strange. You will be shocked by music with so much power and drama, and violence. Indeed Felix referred to the quartet as his "Requiem for Fanny." He would die two months later, at 38, after a series of strokes. He was buried next to his sister in Berlin in 1847.

Composers can't fully develop their gifts without the freedom of ambition that fuels the required effort. Even Mozart took years to hit his stride. The notion that Fanny Mendelssohn could've become a major composer if she'd been free to pursue that goal isn't far-fetched at all. Indeed it’s tragedy her gifts were never allowed to see the light of day. I like to think Felix probably in part felt the same in not just losing a beloved sister but also a wonderful gifted composer.

[emilia-chopin]

Felix Mendelssohn by Horace Vernet, 1831

@mendyson

[ourladyofperpetualnaptime]

What the music I love expresses to me, is not thought too indefinite to put into words, but on the contrary, too definite.

felix mendelssohn, from a letter to marc-andré souchay, 1842

[cactustaffy]

Daily Mendelssohn Trivia

According to the letters Mendelssohn sent to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles, Mendelssohn couldn't tie a cravat for himself for heavens' sake. He practiced tying a cravat for hours and hours in front of his mirror but never got it straight.

Eventually he resorted to stocks when they came out to the market. (*stocks: pre-tied cravats)

[symphonybracket]

YouTube Links: Saint-Saëns 3, Mendelssohn 4

Comments:

Saint-Saëns 3

the use of the pipe organ is exceptional

Mendelssohn 4

The last movement is just so good, the vibes are so fun

Thank you to @nastywizard for alerting me to the fact they used Mendelssohn 4 in the 12 Dancing Princesses Barbie movie:

[Video Description: clip from the movie The 12 Dancing Princesses showing a dance number to Mendelssohn 4 /end VD]

[angeryed]

Look I made a little something for y’all ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

[not-from-amazon]

Hello ppl, have a page filled with composers doodles 🤗✨

Those who are targeted to have cat ears are...Haydn(thick brows with a wig), Mozart(very tiny guy w a bow lol) and [young] Beethoven(his hair is stylised n messy) <3

The guy that have mediacore looking hair is a poorly drawn Chopin </3

The silly big goofball in the middle of the page is Mozart ✨✨🥰

Bach in chicken costume xD

[foxynovacoda]

Post-bombing this there. My neck hurts.

And they were roommates