Geniusses are born !.Mozart/Beethoven/Shakespeare/Einstein/Bach/Napoleon/Mao/Karl Marx/Genghis Khan/Alexander & Peter the great etc. & even Hitler, from a petty unknown corporal almost conquered the World !!!

Leitmotifs rule. Most of the songs come back in some way, shape, or form. Prologue? Ensemble comes back as Look Down and duet part comes back in the Confrontation. The bishop's part? Empty Chairs at Empty Tables. What Have I Done? Obvious. Javert's Suicide. That one isn't even just the music, they're both going through an existential crisis over being shown kindness they don't feel they deserve. Fantine's death? Both On My Own AND Valjean's death. Stars? The instrumental bit at the end of Javert's Suicide. Master of the House? Beggars at the Feast. Do You Hear the People Sing is the most obvious, it's the finale. A lot of things come back out get started in One Day More. As for themes rather than music, there's a few similarities between songs. In the Confrontation, Valjean is singing what was Javert's part in the prologue and vice versa. What Have I Done and Javert's Suicide both feature existential crises, as previously mentioned, but with very different outcomes. Javert's Suicide is formed in part by Stars, which does a great job of laying out his ideals, his belief that justice and mercy are mutually exclusive, etc. Who Am I is another existential crisis song, but to my knowledge it doesn't share musical similarities with any others. All the Thenardier songs show what horrible people they are since we don't have 60 pages of Waterloo like there are in the book. There aren't too many thematic similarities between Empty Chairs and the bishop's song, or Fantine's Death and On My Own, but Valjean's death has pretty much the same thing happen as Fantine's. The finale is basically a reprise of Do You Hear the People Sing.

Idk about y'all but I love listening to complete operas lol. I listen to opera all the time. I love the music the text honestly doesn't matter for me too much I find it distracting when following along with the opera.

yes, Mozart was genius for all the points you mention. But his real genius you do not mention. Listen to all his music. In all, he created a pulse, either heard or felt. And he did it without percussion; which nobody since has been able to achieve. The pulse gives his music a life, like something alive.

My solution to this problem is Peter Schickele 's Beethoven's 5th Symphony Sportscast.

In which form is written the 4th movement?

most underrated composer ever. more people need to listen to him!

One suspects that he perceives his voice is the sound of heaven.

Love how instead of showing Cyrillic with Tchaikovsky’s letter, you show Arabic (or Farsi…if it’s either). Lol

A herculian task to say the least Best of luck to us I guess Awesome video

but you should learn to pronounce “Rachmaninoff” correctly, it's a shame.

When pronouncing 'Desplat', the s and t are silent.

Like Amadeus from movie ♥

You absolutely ignore the fact that in 1871 Mussorgsky wrote "experimental" piece "The Seamstress" with sudden modulations. His Pictures at an exhibition also was ahead of time. Both Debussy and Satie knew these little-known works and developed ideas from

Thank you so much for helping me to discover and understand Mr. Mahler. Although my time is short, my life is forever changed because you have introduced me to something so beautiful.

Your solutions all ring true with me. I'm just a normal guy who buys a few CDs and attends a few concerts a year. It was educational content like yours helping me know what to listen for that got me started listening and enjoying. And it was social media 'celebrity' soloists giving me a connection that first got me to the concert hall. And yeah, I looked up clothing and stuff before I went cus I had the same (wrong) expectations you mentioned.

As an example of beautiful melodies in modern music (while still preserving the modern qualities), check out the doom metal genre. It might be unexpected, but it might be surprising how deep, expressive, evocative and beautiful this genre can be when done by competent bands. However, in this genre generally the melody won't come from the voice, but from the guitars, keyboards or other instruments. For example: Officium Triste - "Your Fall from Grace". Or Draconian - "The Marriage of Attaris" (this one also has beautiful female vocals and a ravishing interlude)

The HTTYD OST is what happens when artist are allowed to work freely

It is not „prima nocta“ but „ius primae noctis“, the right of the first night. The Latin word for night is not, „noctis“ is the Genitiv meaning „of the night“.

this is amazing! very inspiring!!

Commenting on every HTTYD vid. Plus god, the score is incredible. Test Drive makes my heart swoop and soar in equal measure.

Great video, ill be sharing! Please tell me she talks demographics in the book... Boomer population decline will have huge implications.

As somebody who is relatively young and does not ever go to concerts, I'm just gonne leave some thoughts here that I had while watching the video. 1. Agree completely, if I can't navigate your website and it doesn't tell me how long things will last, how it's structured, when there are breaks etc, I'm definitely not coming. That applies to any event, for anything. 2. Also agree on the technical language. I know more terminology than anybody in my circle who _doesn't_ listen to classical music, but it's still not nearly enough, and that makes it feel a bit hopeless. Just having a glossary would even help, then you don't have to "dumb down" the main text and offend the people who would indeed know what everything means. 3. Education really is key. I don't listen to Mozart, ever, but I don't know a single person who doesn't get super hyped at the end of 'Amadeus' where we see them build up the "confutatis" bit of the requiem piece by piece, and then after understanding it hearing it all assembled... it's exciting, listening to it with all that perspective makes for a completely different experience and it's wonderful. 4. I'm from Germany, and I don't know how our music education compares to that in the US or UK, but mine was pretty bad. In the last two years we basically only watched movies. But it still was the one occasion in my life where I actually got to hear some classical music without actively seeking it out, and that still did something. I was bored to death by art songs, and then one by Schumann came along that I randomly fell in love with and listen to and cherish to this day. 5. I will say, the elitist impression for me does mostly come from uhh... the people I've met who are into classical music. This comment section included btw. There are a lot of _really_ snobbish, condescending people out there, and maybe they're just the loudest ones, but they are very loud. I completely stopped telling people what music I listen to because of bad experiences with classical music enthusiasts (and heavy metal fans, to be fair, they were also occasionally quite mean about it!). Now that I'm thinking about it, I kinda had bad experiences across the board. Every time I did discover a classical piece that I liked, and mentioned it to people who were into classical music, they would deride my taste for being basic. Which yes, it is, go figure, I enjoy summer by Vivaldi, haha, but it doesn't feel particularly good to be laughed at for that.

He is the greatest. He is in his own category by himself. A genius of the kind that only emerges once every few hundred years.

I believe Satie was also in one of the earliest or first music videos. What a chad.

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This is very interesting n useful channel 👌👌

I feel sad that not many of us have this depth of feeling, understanding, wisdom, maturity and intelligence that Mahler, J.S. Bach and other composers like them had. Or maybe it's just me whose brain feels stagnant and myopic.

I just wish he would have lived long enough to write a piano concerto😭

This vid explains why pop music is forgettable (predictable & repetative chords) and how classical music (thoughtfully crafted notation) is so memorable.

Definitely gonna listen to Mass in b minor after this

The piano was invented by Cristofori round about the year 1700.

The Toccata banged so crazy that Monteverdi used it for his Vespra beata virgina

Apple advertisement ... RUBBISH

Terrible crackpot bombast

thank you for your work Sir!!! brilliant !!

what an amazing video, congrats!!

There’s no way he called Schumann Schubert 💀

👍🏻👍🏻❤️

Powell’s use of the pentatonic scale is not exclusive to HTTYD and KFP; it very much integrated within his typical writing style. Listen to the themes of The Lorax, Rio, Solo, Horton Hears A Who, and even Call Of the Wild; the pentatonic scales are screaming to be recognised!

I have to work on that composer and do a listening log on a book by him called “The Creation.”

Now I’m imagining shopping malls hiring full-time DJs to curate their muzak

Don’t forget about A Musical Offering either. Another of his great keyboard variation works

I recently got the opportunity to start playing on my church's "small" organ with 12 voices and pedals + 1 manual. It is such a lovely instrument, that truly fills the relatively small room it is within. Build in 1844, it is also among the oldest in Denmark, certainly in a small church like this.

He IS the g.o.a.t

Ravel’s Concerto for Left Hand is in my top 5 favorite works of all time for piano and orchestra. I tried listening to the Wittgenstein recording a few years ago and just couldn’t stomach it. His “I don’t give a s**t” approach and complete lack of respect for both Ravel and the concerto was appalling.

Just listening to the lyrics of the second symphony made me shed tears. I cannot wait to listen to Mahler's works in real life. P.S. I hope to listen to Alma's compositions as well!

I’ll always be thankful to my music appreciation teacher for introducing me to these masterpieces. Ms. Morris if you’re out there, you started me on a journey to classical music ❤

Im Filipino and I love Rimsky Korsakov!

I love how John Williams made sure to include shades of The Imperial March in just about every piece of music he composed for the Prequels