OMG, this channel is as underrated as these composers, thanks for your awesome videos.

Alkan was musically capable, and so was Thalberg. Then I showed up

I find Edvard Grieg to be quite underrated as well. He wrote such great music - not only the famous Peer Gynt Suites.

Fanny Mendelssohn is a gem!

you could also make a video talking about today's composers, who are still active and composing :) I think this is a good idea.

I always found Dvorak’s symphonies really beautiful and exciting!

I can't believe I've only just discovered your channel! I'm so happy to see Albeniz getting some appreciation, as he's is not only my favourite composer but also constantly overlooked.

i love to explore little known music. thanx so much for doing this. subscribed!

Some other interesting romantic composers. Heller, Gade, Smetana Musorgsky Moszkowski Lyadov Pachulski Granados Reger MacDowell Gliere

My name is Pablo. I am a 50 year old Spaniard. I play piano and have been familiar with most of the classical piano repertoire for more than 30 years now. I totally agree that all the composers you mention here are somehow underrated. But Iwould like to comment on Albeniz. I love his music because it’s beyond belief. Unfortunately, not so many people listen to it, nor make him a part of a recital programme. Not even in Spain. He is represented in our home country, of course, but not as much as you’d think. But there is a fact about your saying that he isn’t so popular that will surprise you the same way it surprised me, nevertheless what you said about his pieces been very difficult is true, but surprisingly enough, he comes in 8th place...if I remember well, in the score buying demand for piano from Henle Verlag, the probably best of all piano music score publishing companies out there. That is my personal feeling, which is not to wonder once you know that some of the revisions and fingering has been done by people as talented as Murray Perahia. That is, he comes as the 8th choice for Piano score buyers, after of course: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Chopin ...and I don’t remenber now about the other 2. By the way, congrats on the series of videos about composers, pieces and so on. You do a perfect job at bringing classical music in an easy to follow, entertaining way, to all those who don’t know what they are missing in the world of classical music, and especially Piano.

Interesting video! Thanks for uploading!

You are very erudite. Thank you again for all the work and thought and knowledge you put into these videos. Every week I look forward to seeing what you have done. You always tell me something I didn't know or give me something new to think about or struggle with!

dVOR-zhak

Great video!

what a delightful video subject, thanks ! i really love the scarlatti sonata you chose (which i never heard before)

Very well editing on this video! Congratulations

Dvorak's Slavic Dances (piano version) and Humoresque no.7 are amazing! Im proud to be Czech:)Also listen to Smetana's Slepička and Janáček's In the mists (III. is the best one).

Le festin d'esop is one of the best piano pieces ever written, great channel!

i love all the people in the list, but Alkan... Oh dear Alkan, i love you

Amusing, refreshing! Good program:-)

I enjoyed it and subbed. Thanks! :)

You should do easiest (and hardest!) of Schubert or Tchaikovsky

Nice video! Alkan deserves much more love!

Glad you mentioned Albéniz! He's also one of my favourites. And not only for his piano music! He has, for instance, some very interesting and beautiful settings of English poems.

I am loving this channel so much! I'd love to see you do something on Rachmaninov :)

Thanks a lot for this video 😄 I have learned about Fanny Mendelssohn and Alkan 🙂

All I can say is this channel rocks! Finally someone who speak about classical music without arrogance or pompousness

What a great video and great idea too. I had no idea Fanny mendelsohn existed and you made some good points and observations. I loved the excerpt. Wonderful music. Always loved Scarlatti as I play Classical guitar where he is a legend.

best of the best information 😌😌😌

Good to see Alkan here. But...Dvorak and Scarlatti are famous. There are so many really underrated composers, like Juliusz Zarębski, Antoni Stolpe, Hans Rott, Ernest Chausson, Siegmund von Hausegger, Mikolajous Konstantinas Ciurlionis, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Kurt Atterberg... and many, many others. They wrote brilliant music, which is so rarely performed.

helpful video thx

Youre amazing! Rare talent to be able to explain classical music. Great things are in your future :)

Scarlatti is the bomb. And since yu already suggested my favourite of his sonatas so far, I'll recommend his cat-fugue (sonata K30, fugal treatment of a theme that his cat Pulcinella walked over the keyboard one day) !

Thank you

Alkan! Yes! I just discovered him through his Esquisses. Looked 'em up to try and find out what an esquisse is.

Albeniz is so underrated and and as a guitarist one of my favorites.

I absolutely love Dvorak! I enjoy his Slavonic dances quite a bit, especially the first 8 of them.

Love listening to Dvorak, definitely underrated. I just started learning how to play the cello last week, and I have a piano and percussion background. One day I hope to try to learn his cello concerto, it has beautiful melodies in it, and I love the way Dvorak writes for the cello.

Thanks for giving me a new guy to listen to with Alkan :)

I love Scarlatti! The most beautiful melodies and the most fun music!

great video thanks :) ba-rock

Imo Salieri is one of the most underrated composers . I have read that in his days he was one of the best teachers in europe and probably the most well known composer ,but now he is just known from a few people because of mozart

Awesome videos . I never think of Scarlatti as underrated .but of course as a pianist I wouldn't . His music gets in the movies but most of all it is a great bet to open a recital with his very entertaining music than the dance like equally entertaining but overtly serious older fashioned J. S .Bach . I'd like to see how many pianists open with Handel or Bach suites as opposed to Scarlatti bi-partite essercizi . Asturias everyone knows but can't name composer or name title : including me ! Fanny I didn't know was serious . She wrote hundreds of pieces ; that was news to me . Love these videos please keep them coming .Alkan is probably every pianist's favorite obscure . Like Sorabji his music is very often too long and very often difficult . I discovered the Barcarolle he wrote in middle school . Raymond Lewenthal like Busoni , Petri and others programmed Alkan . Many more do now .

i ve just found you this channel is really interesting and i play the piano too:)

Thank you for uploading your chat on these composers. If you decide to do another upload please add the pianist composer William Sterndale Bennett. Schumann was a fan. Its amazing to think that when you ask people about British composers of the 19th century they either draw a blank or just think of Elgar or possibly Sullivan. This might be a golden opportunity for underrated British Composers. Many thanks

Hey I'm working on mozarts 6 viennesse sonatinas and I was wondering if you could post a video on which one to start with and some other tips on playing them.

Great list! I would also recommend Joseph Martin Kraus, known as the Swedish Mozart. His contrapuntal skills are first rate

Thank you so much for this channel. I began my own personal journey of discovering unknown composers because I often thought "there has got to be more out there that are eclipsed by their more famous contemporaries." Ive been at this for the past 15 years. I have my own list that I will have on my page coming soon. I often wonder.... What are people going to say about ME and my music?

"Mainly known for his 555 sonatas" I just about spit out my drink at this casual factoid. Are these 15-30 min sonatas? Holy freeholies. Also I LOVE the alkan piece you showcased! Great video, especially for us sad people who are more classical music listeners than players.

Anton Arensky is another overlooked composer! Hear Piano Trio 1, D Minor, I. Also, Dvorak totally needs more cred! Minuet from Serenade for Strings is to die for!

Hey I was wondering if you could make a video on strengthening the fourth and fifth fingers(especially on the left hand). Im working on Bach Inventions and my weak fourth finger often leads me to falling out of tempo.

Yay for Albeniz. I'm currently trying to tackle "El Albaicín", probably the only piece I will ever be able to play from Iberia.

Even more obscure than Alkan was his second cousin twice removed through intercourse, Hans Wehr-Alkan Seeum, whose was known for a prodigious use of dissonant chords, really too many of them, as he'd learned to play the piano with his elbows. Seriously, Asturias is really wonderful, and an appealing choice for classical guitar players.

Can you tell us the other 9 that were on your list?

I'm currently learning a piece by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel! Great choice!

I think Dvorak is a Huge Composer, and he is well known by classical and no musicians in the US, i think. Yoyo Ma has one of the most Awsome records from Dvorak's cello concerto, an his music is also popular through some hollywood movies, like "The witches of eastwick" with Jack Nicholson

hey Allysia, love your "A Brief History" series! can you please do it for Scriabin and Satie as well....

6:30 Alkan's BACKstory LOL

I enjoyed your video. I currently am in the practice of playing Granada and Austurias from Suite Espanola (Provinces of Spain BTW...), but played the ladder at my Senior Recital years ago. I also played Cataluña, another mvt from the same suite, at a recital a few months later as well as K 380 sonata of D. Scarlatti. In Cataluña there's a fast moving 16th notes section in the midst of the piece. I also attempted Enrique Granados' Allegro Di Concierto in C-sharp. Very long and compex with a Jaws-like section in the middle of the piece (wondered if John Williams heard this and borrowed it??). Also check out Edward McDowell, who was an American composer out of New England. Studied with Liszt. His Piece Witches Dance is Grandest. Go to KZfaq where a lady in red plays it the best in Carnegie Hall. Very Overlooked. Interestingly enough Albeniz, McDowell and Debussy all attended the Paris Conservatory, and Albeniz and McDowell have the same years of life (1862- 1909).

Asturias

Love your eyecolour

was hoping to see Suk on here. he wrote an amazing serenade for strings

Salieri should be on this list! But that's just my opnion.

Amy Beach!! Perfect for a piano lover 😍😍

I love Asturias but never knew the composer was Spanish .. TQ 4 d info.

You forgot to mention the cello concerto by Dvorak (Dvorzhak). Me and lots of classical music lovers consider this concerto as (still) the best cello concerto in the world!

We need a big list of them

0:36 "this Liszt"

Great video!! But I expected to hear Albeniz's 'Eritaña' as an example of how spectacular his music is :( you got a new subscriber! :D

My other favorite pieces of these Composers not mentioned in there video: Scarlatti: Sonata K 27, Sonata K 162 Fanny Mendelssohn: Easter Sonata Albeniz: L'autome Valse, Triana, Malagueña op 165 Alkan: Le Preux Dvorak: American Quartet

I know you won´t see this commentary, but have you heard of a spanish composers named Federico Mompou? I think he´s also really underrated, i like to call him the spanish Debussy because i found his style close to the debussy style of composing.

The black and white filters on slight stammers are so goddamned funny

But Dvořak is well known isn't he?

I add Sigismond (or Sigismund) Thalberg to the list of Alkan. He kind of was Liszt's rival for a while and was highly appreciated during that time.

My favourite interpreter of Alkan is an Italian called Maltempo.

Is Muzio Clementi to be included in the underrated composers' list ? I'd also like to suggest Buxtehude as a great baroque composer,still nearly unknown to most of classic music enthusiasts yet being popular just amongst true classic music connoisseurs.

I disagree that Dvorak's music is forgotten other than his symphonies, because his American quartet is one of the most popular string quartets, his cello concerto is one of the most essential in the cello repertoire, and he also has a very prominent violin concerto. He also has some widely played smaller pieces like Humoresque.

I love it when you discover a moving piece by a little known composer. It's like finding gold! My list would be..... Heller, Scriabin, Czerny, for his piano duet concert , not his unending etudes, Hallè and Fanny M. Great vid. Thanks

You should definitely check out the piano music of Federico Mompou, who is sometimes referred to as the “Debussy” of Spanish music.

wow I have never Dvorak piano quintet, it's beautiful

How about Arvo Part? Heard him recently I was impressed!

Some of my personal favorite less famous composers: - Sergei Lyapunov - Heavily influenced by Balakirev and other contempraries, but tried to write Liszt-like music. Some really interesting pieces, though he seems to use the same type of scales / patterns a bit too often. His Barcarolle or his transcendental etudes are good examples. - Leopold Godowsky - Both his original compositions and transcriptions / pieces based on other pieces are amazing. People will usually have heard of his transcription of Saint Saens' the Swan, or some of his etudes based on Chopin's. - Kurt Atterberg - I love his piano concerto, and his symphonies are usually quite good as well. His 6th Symphony is mostly movie type music, which I love. - Ottorino Respighi - Hit or miss, but has some amazing pieces. Also a lot of movie type music. The biggest problem with most composers is that they only have few pieces that are of that top quality that we're usually looking for. For example, one of my favorite pieces ever, Felix Blumenfeld's Op. 36 etude for the left hand, is one of the sadly very few pieces I like that he composed. When you do find those gems though, it always makes your day.

Villa-Lobos from Brazil? You should listen to "Bachianas Brasileiras Nº4(Prelude)", "Dança do índio branco", "Tristorosa"... Horowitz met him and liked his works. He composed for chords and other instruments too but its quite easy to find piano transcriptions, maybe did by himself.

Could you do a video on Erik Satie?

Puzzling list. Dvorak is a top-10 composer, Albeniz is the most well-known composer of Spanish piano music, and Scarlatti has been a staple of concert pianist repertoire for at least the past century. As for Alkan, he is less-known but considering the quality of music relative to its technical difficulty, he is quite highly-rated.

Am I the only one who realised that Albeniz' Suite espanola op.47's guitar arrangement is the beginning of The Doors' track called Spanish Caravan, which, if I remember well, is on Waiting for The Sun.

I don't know if this was already mentioned but what about Dvorak's, "Humoresque" or his, Slavonic Dances(especially No.2)

Pablo de Sarasate is one of my favourite composers and happens to be spanish! He's a virtuoso violinist that wrote some insanely difficult violin pieces (not really underrated though, most violinists know him)

May I suggest Dukas and Martinu?

In my house we believe that the Dvorak cello concerto is not only the best work for cello ever written but the best concerto for any instrument ever written.

I find Dmitry Kabalevsky, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Jón Leifs, Mikhail Glinka, and Wilhelm Stenhammar to be among the greatest underappreciated composers. I am especially enamoured with Kabalevsky's Violin Concerto and 2nd Cello Concerto, as well as Myaskovsky's 13th String Quartet. Moritz Moszkowsky wrote a wonderful Piano Concerto and Henri Veuxtemps wrote a magnificent Cello Concerto.

Scriabin :3

I agree with your choices. I would have added Bruch Korngold, Tarrega, Franck, and Sibelius to the list.

In terms of keyboard composers (this being a piano channel and all), some personal favourites I would add would be Francois Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Henry Purcell, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre. I know they are all baroque but I play the harpsichord myself so I have a pretty significant bias. I also might be harbouring a bit of resentment for all those 19th and early 20th century piano chauvinists who burned surviving antique harpsichords for firewood.

The beginning of Fanny's trio sounds like Felix' violin concerto's beginning.

How about Mussorgsky and The Mighty Five???

Deberían estar: - Muzio Clementi (por sus sonatas, no por sus sonatinas) - Jan Dismas Zelenka - Anton Rossetti - Czerny (por sus obras de concierto, no sus estudios) - Faure - Manuel M. Ponce

can you make a video about microtonal music? I think it's very interesting

Great video! So much interesting new information. I never realized that my most favorite classical guitar piece, Asturias (or Leyenda), by Isaac Albeniz, was originally composed for piano, in the key of G minor. When played on guitar, I know it is always in the key of E minor. Seems G minor doesn’t convert well to guitar. If you want to hear a really beautiful rendition of this piece, listen to classical guitar goddess Ana Vidovic master this music on KZfaq. I really enjoy your “history” videos as otherwise I might never get to know so many great composers/pianists. Thank you!

3:40 Maybe I was ignorant with a cartoonishly 2D perception of the world but wow that’s wild that was made during the baroque period. Goes to show everything has probably been going on all along and we narrowly attribute sweeping generalizations based on just whatever happened to be the popular highlight of the moment, to the scene & circumstances as a absolutist whole. I wonder what other types of music people where experimenting with but there was never a demand for or was just too left field for the time