[HN Gopher] A lost paradise of purity: the late masterpieces of ...
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       A lost paradise of purity: the late masterpieces of Schubert
        
       Author : tintinnabula
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-01-09 00:44 UTC (22 hours ago)
        
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       | bjoli wrote:
       | His best works are written in what I have always imagined as some
       | sort of feverish spurts when the syphilis was in remission to
       | just get them out of him for the afterworld. The late symphonies,
       | the septet, Winterreise. All amazing works.
       | 
       | I listen to a lot of music, but some works I go back to more than
       | others. The big C major quintet (the string quartet with an extra
       | cello one) is in my opinion the greatest piece of chamber music
       | ever written, and I don't even like string music.
       | 
       | The recording with the Emerson quartet and Rostropovich is
       | probably my favourite.
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       | Another work I always return to are Petterssons 7th symphony,
       | preferably the recording with the orchestra I work in.
       | Norrkopings Symphony orchestra together with Leif Segerstam. Way
       | before my time, but wow what a symphony. I never understood why
       | Pettersson is never mentioned among other Scandinavian composers
       | such as Nielsen or Sibelius. His seventh symphony deserves to be
       | played world wide.
        
       | Mediterraneo10 wrote:
       | It is interesting that the author here has to describe what
       | emotional effect Schubert might have intended with his use of
       | keys; when writers today do this, to me it suggests that
       | contemporary readers might not hear this angst themselves. Not
       | only did later Romanticism and Debussy stretch tonality to a
       | point where listeners became more comfortable with hitherto
       | dissonant keys, and so they do not hear things the way Schubert's
       | listeners would have, but modern pop music is very constrained in
       | its use of modulation so society has lost much of the grammar of
       | Baroque, Classical and Romantic music.
        
         | akdor1154 wrote:
         | I don't even understand the article's claim to dissonance - is
         | it the dissonance you'd hear from e.g playing on B on a just
         | intonation C piano? Or is it a 'dissonance' in the sense of a
         | modulation to a non-diatonic key? Or is it just some
         | expectation that the audience associates moods with different
         | keys? (So assuming the audience can be expected to have at
         | least subconscious absolute pitch, seems unlikely)
        
       | gHeadphone wrote:
       | Incredible to think he died at 31, and composed more than 1,500
       | works, many of which are adored today. He makes me want to work
       | harder every day.
        
         | copperwater69 wrote:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Franz_...
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         | Woah Man on a mission
        
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