5 Underrated Composers You Should Be Listening To
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OMG, this channel is as underrated as these composers, thanks for your awesome videos.
In what way is this underrated? 116k subs with 47k views. The evidence suggests its perfectly rated.
Alkan was musically capable, and so was Thalberg.
Then I showed up
Ahem Ahem Who are you and why you have me name
Wasn’t Thalberg your enemy?
I find Edvard Grieg to be quite underrated as well. He wrote such great music - not only the famous Peer Gynt Suites.
I love his Lyric Pieces and do feel he is underrated as well!
Nice
Most composers are underrated. I would not call Grieg underrated, he is one of the best known.
Fanny Mendelssohn is a gem!
Of course she is. :)
Wow a hidden gem
I always found Dvorak’s symphonies really beautiful and exciting!
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.
Some other interesting romantic composers.
Heller,
Gade,
Smetana
Musorgsky
Moszkowski
Lyadov
Pachulski
Granados
Reger
MacDowell
Gliere
Mussorgsky is not underrated at all.
Felix Mendelssohn
He is the only one I recognized
Musorgsky isn't underrated he is freaking famous atm
Yeah, my deep apologies. Made a mistake.
np np and I like Heller very much. I can play some of his Etudes and I can play his music with very much emotions and I love Smetema's la Vast
you could also make a video talking about today's composers, who are still active and composing :) I think this is a good idea.
MarsLos10 It is a good idea indeed.
have my like
She hasn't done this still afaik. I would like to see it too.
there are no good classical composers today except for Phillip Glass
@Agamaz
Michael Nyman? Arvo Part? Max Richter? there are still great composers living.
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).
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) !
Le festin d'esop is one of the best piano pieces ever written, great channel!
Don't know about best, but one of the most entertaining. Greetings from East Anglia in England.
i love all the people in the list, but Alkan... Oh dear Alkan, i love you
Some of my favorites by Dvořák (pronounced "DVOR-zhahk," incidentally):
Slavonic Dances, opus 46 and 72 (eight dances each), for piano four hands or orchestra
Legends (10), also piano four hands or orchestra
Othello Overture, Opus 93
Czech Suite in D major and minor, opus 39
Symphonic Poems:
The Water Goblin
The Noon Witch
The Golden Spinning Wheel
The Wild Dove
A Hero's Song
Concertos for Cello, Violin and Piano (3 works, 1 of each)
23 Moravian Duets
Serenades for Strings and Winds (1 each)
Bagatelles for 2 violins, cello and harmonium (1 work)
Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor (Dumky)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb major
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major
Four Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano
Piano music:
2 furiants
8 waltzes
6 mazurkas
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
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.
HonorataMusica ciurlionis' symphonic/tone poems are just beautiful
Jordy De Raedt
Yes, The Sea is my favorite...
HonorataMusica also atterberg was a pleasant surprise for me. Thanks for that
Jordy De Raedt
I'm glad you like it :) His piano concerto, marvellous one
Dvorak is famous for his works NOT written for the piano. His piano music is virtually unknown.
And Hans Rott? Excuse me but the only reason why anyone remembers him at all is Mahler. He died before he even had the slightest change to reach musical maturity. His music is a single what could have been.
You should do easiest (and hardest!) of Schubert or Tchaikovsky
That would be much appreciated indeed!
Acer Pseudoplantatus first comment I ever got on one of my comments
The Piano player Tchaikovsky hasn't written that much for piano solo, if you want his easiest try his children's album, and his hardest would probably be his G major sonata
Schuberts hardest pieces are musically demanding like his 4 impromptus but his mostly demanding piece is Wanderer's Fantasy.
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!
Albeniz is so underrated and and as a guitarist one of my favorites.
Funny considering that all the famous Albeniz pieces for Guitar were not written for this instrument by him.
He's not underrated.
as a spanish music student, here's a list of exelent spanish and catalan composers:
enrique granados (super well known and amazing, suite española or goyescas)
Isaac Albeniz
Eduard Toldrà (sonetí de la rosada)
Pau Casals (aka Pablo, but please don't say pablo, is the spanished version of his name, that was pau, el cant dels ocells)
Frederic Mompou (chansons et danses)
Xavier Montsalvatge (wild variety of keyboard pieces)
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 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
I love Scarlatti! The most beautiful melodies and the most fun music!
i love to explore little known music. thanx so much for doing this. subscribed!
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
"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.
I know this is late but they are MUCH shorter than the classical ones
These are like 3-8 min one movement sonatas :)
I am loving this channel so much! I'd love to see you do something on Rachmaninov :)
All I can say is this channel rocks! Finally someone who speak about classical music without arrogance or pompousness
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.
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.
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.
dVOR-zhak
His name includes Czech letter Ř. It's so difficult to pronunce that even some Czechs have problems with that and it's a tremendous challenge for students of Czech language :D
Para los hispanohablantes la pronunciación es: "Voj-rrack" eso lo he escuchado en todos los círculos serios de varias partes del mundo.
THank you!! and also, da faya not da falla
@MatescoCZ
It's easy to pronounce, as long as you look up _how_ it's pronounced
Thanks god It's the top comment, I was cringing whenever I heard Dvorak :D
Salieri should be on this list! But that's just my opnion.
The Shadow Person Mozart ruined salieri 😧
The Shadow Person yep that movie Amadeus made a great disservice spreading rumors even in reality he was nothing like that
Salieri is only known related to Mozart, lol!
his music is forgotten nowadays, I agree, he is kinda underrated.
Ajgthecreator Yeah idk why Beethoven didn't ruin Wagner lol. Then we would still have a romantic era...
WilliamTanaka It was a good movie, just not true.
I absolutely love Dvorak! I enjoy his Slavonic dances quite a bit, especially the first 8 of them.
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!
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 .
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 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.
Talking of Dvořak, you kind of suggest the last 3 symphonies are the most rewarding. Give the 6th a try, it's not deeply emltional but radiantly joyful, also remarkably closely modelled on Brahms' 2nd. And for emotional depth, try the cello concerto.
And talking of modelling a piece, I've always been fascinated how closely the finale of Schubert's late A major sonata, one of his greatest pieces, follows the finale of Beethoven's G major sonata op.31 no.1, which strikes me (the whole sonata) as rather trivial, especially alongside the other two op.31 sonatas which are especially fine.
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!
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
Pronunciation: Albeniz is (approximately) "ahl-BAY-neeth: or "ahl-BAY-nees" depending on the type of Spanish accent, Falla is "FAHL-yah" or "FAHy-yah" and Granados is "grah-NAH-dhohs" ("dh" being the "th" sound of "then," not "think").
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.
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.
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.
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
You should definitely check out the piano music of Federico Mompou, who is sometimes referred to as the “Debussy” of Spanish music.
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
Alkan! Yes! I just discovered him through his Esquisses. Looked 'em up to try and find out what an esquisse is.
There's a lot more I can think of for the Baroque and Classical periods. For Baroque, there's Antonio Caldara, Nicola Porpora, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Leonardo Vinci, Giovanni Batista Pergolesi, Leonardo Leo and Johann Adolf Hasse. For Classical, there's Antonio Salieri, André Grétry, Josef Mysliveček, Giuseppe Sarti, Vicente Martín y Soler, Giovanni Paisiello and Johann Christian Bach. And of course, there's Baldassare Galuppi who was part of the transition, and has both Baroque and Classical pieces.
And if you're into opera, although I won't consider Antonio Vivaldi and Joseph Haydn to be obscure composers, their operas are certainly underrated, and much less known than those of their counterparts, Handel and Mozart respectively.
my favorite underrated composers in the line of chopin and schuman are: charles alkan, Adolf henselt, Alexander scriabin and benjamín godard. and the best to develope technique are: Duvernoy, Gurlitt, Giuseppe concone, Stephen héller, Ernst haberbier, Anatoly lyadov. As you can see i love more the 'underrated composers'.
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.
Nice video!
Alkan deserves much more love!
Coma Kid yes alkan did an arrangement of the siciliano by bach for piano I believe lasitsa uses his sheet for her rendition
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.
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.
I love Asturias but never knew the composer was Spanish .. TQ 4 d info.
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
How about Clementi?? Why is there no mention of him? Muzio Clementi...... She forgot to mention him as extremely underrated.
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 absolutely agree. Dvorak is not forgotten at all. His magnificent piano concerto or his serenade for strings are well known.
Slavonic Dances
0:36 "this Liszt"
what a delightful video subject, thanks ! i really love the scarlatti sonata you chose (which i never heard before)
Yay for Albeniz. I'm currently trying to tackle "El Albaicín", probably the only piece I will ever be able to play from Iberia.
If you ever make a "Part II" to this video, featuring some more underrated greats, I would STRONGLY suggest adding Jean Philippe Rameau to the list. He is, in my opinion, one of the greatest composers the Baroque era has ever seen (maybe even more brilliant than Handel :-)) His opera, "Hippolyte et aricie" is a tour-de-force of compositional prowess; every measure of music in that thing is powerful stuff.
I realize anybody can go on youtube and present what they like.
But I wish you had done more research first. For instance...Dvorak (pronounced like Dvor-Jacque) was hugely popular and successful in his day (even in New York) - partially thanks to the support and sponsorship of Brahms - and remains so today. He's so well liked that even his early attempts at symphony writing have been recorded multiple times, his Slavonic Dances are well known, his chamber music receives performances all over the world, etc. (I could go on and on.) He's one of my top 5! There are other Czech composers worthy of attention that aren't widely known, however.
I agree with your choices. I would have added Bruch Korngold, Tarrega, Franck, and Sibelius to the list.
Johann Friedrich Fasch. He was offered the post of Kapellmeister in Liepzig after Teleman tuned it down. Fasch turned it down also.Distant third choice was JS Bach. JS Bach was a fan of Fasch and performed many of his works.
The black and white filters on slight stammers are so goddamned funny
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?
was hoping to see Suk on here. he wrote an amazing serenade for strings
If you like Rachmaninoffs piano concertos you should definitely check out Nikolai Medtner's piano concertos. They are similar in style to Rachmaninoff but critcally underated.
His music is good, I wouldn't really compare him to Rachmaninoff though. But that's mostly because of different styles. Personally I prefer Rachmaninoff 100x, but I can see why other people would have different opinions.
D3monsrun At least medtner is actually underrated though. Or rather underappreciated. Almost nobody knows him. Dvorak on the other hand is one of the very most famous composers and his 9th symphony is probably among the few pieces that even most people who don't have a clue about "classical music" know, especially in america. So I found it really weird to find him on this list.
Also, who ever said that dvorak's music is lighter or simpler than brahms's, let alone superficial? I can't think of anyone who ever did, in his or our time. Brahms said himself that "I could write my main themes from his scraps", that should be saying something.
Medtner and Rachmaninoff knew each other well enough to dedicate some of their works to each other. In the grand scheme of Western piano music their styles are unquestionably similar, but even a casual listener will quickly come to appreciate the distinctions. There are plenty of historical sources for those who want to know why Rachmaninoff is the more popular (and "successful") of the two, and why his concertos and solo pieces for piano continue to be programmed. Why Medtner's are played so little is a mystery to me, especially his 38 "Fairy Tales" and various "Forgotten Melodies." He understood the capabilities of the piano and the pianist better than many other composers. Fortunately, there are many outstanding recordings, and not a few on UA-cam.
SpaghettiToaster - That Brahms quote is magnificent :) btw I once heard a Marc-Andre Hamelin interview in which he mentioned Medtner as a composer whose pieces feel nice under the hands
Great list! I would also recommend Joseph Martin Kraus, known as the Swedish Mozart. His contrapuntal skills are first rate
Scarlatti effectively was a Spanish composer. His sonatas are full of flamenco guitars.
Youre amazing! Rare talent to be able to explain classical music. Great things are in your future :)
Thanks a lot for this video 😄 I have learned about Fanny Mendelssohn and Alkan 🙂
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.
My favourite interpreter of Alkan is an Italian called Maltempo.
I think the most underrated composer in 20 c is Sorabji.
John Ogden described him as a great composer like Beethoven.while many of his works had not be performed that time (and even now unfortunately because they are too long and often too hard) but Ogden had seen them
many people think he is a tastless modern composer but it's not true
His music is so complicated butthe same time beautiful and even conservative.
Unfortunately only some piano parts (usuly without orchestra) are the only things that often are performed from him.
Fortunately by computer and virtual orchestral software, now we can hear his masterpieces for example his work.
Very well editing on this video! Congratulations
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 UA-cam 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).
Leopold Godowsky? He was one of Rachmaninov's contemporaries, famous for making a set of studies on Chopin's etudes. His Java Suite and Passacaglia are very nice.
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.
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)
I never thought of Dvorak as underrated. I grew up listening to classical music and he always seemed well established. Unless maybe (and this may be where you are coming in), you are commenting to people that have only heard Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata or Mozart's Eine kleine Nactmusik.
But besides his 9nth Symphony his other popular works are I would say are: The Carnival Overture, Slavic Dances, the Serenades for Strings (esp. the E major one) and one of my favorites from him are his tone poems like The Golden Spinning Wheel.
About the comparison with Brahms, it seemed funny to me because I read the liner notes to an album once and it mentioned how Brahms told Dvorak directly that he needs to write a 'more serious' symphony; I think so that the publishers, the public and posterity will more like him.
l like Dvorak's "Water Goblin" and "songs my mother taugh me" though less known and performed to the mainstream.
listen to alkan scherzo diabolico, overture, allegro barbaro or his preludes they are so goooooooood
Thanks for giving me a new guy to listen to with Alkan :)
1. You shouldn't actually have to worry about copyrights when it comes to Classical Music, because everything since before 1914 is in the public domain. Everything after 1914 gets a bit fuzzy and you can only blame 1 man for that, and that man's name is Walt Disney.
2. There isn't really a 2.
Interesting video! Thanks for uploading!
I think most people prefer romantic music because it is often very expressive and more recent (so less weird to untrained ears).
I love Chopin and Beethoven (not very original, I know) because of the emotional depth in their pieces. Also, I know I prefer minor-key pieces, darker or dramatic pieces (which is probably why I'm not too much into Mozart). I'm discovering Prokifiev, which I like very much too, and I've discovered that I like Bach, mostly for the technical challenge it represents. I'm having a crush on the second prelude and fugue from the first book, but I will not tackle this one for now (I have a project of taking a level 7 examen next year, so I'll focus on the repertoire needed for that, and with Invention no.8, I have my Baroque-era piece).
Jouishy La pianiste what exam system do u take? I'm taking ABRSM grade 7 in May
6:30 Alkan's BACKstory LOL
great video thanks :) ba-rock
Even though I have only heard his guitar works, I would also include Polish Alexandre Tansman, really great, maybe a bit old-fashioned 20th Century music.
Disagree with Albinez... i've been a HUGE fan of his for over 40 years, and he gets a lot of air time. John Williams and other super-great guitar players ADORED him, and he is considered in the very TOP rank of Spanish composers. That said, i agree with you that the Spaniards tend to get neglected in general, by their more northerly and Easterly neighbours.
Every cellist knows Dvorak. His cello concerto is one of the more played cello concertos, and the first concerto that I studied on cello.
dVORZHAk... is a well known and well loved composer. One of the great tune writers of all time. Actually symphony 7 is considered his best symphony and heavily influenced by Brahms. He also wrote a multitude of other works including probably the premier cello concerto in the reportoire...
I'm currently learning a piece by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel! Great choice!
If you like late romantic, underrated composers who do lots of piano stuff, definitely check out Moszkowski, he’s my fav :)
Great video!
Dvorak is actually pronounced "Dvor-zhak" (there's an upside down ^ symbol over the r) which probably makes people think he's two different people. His "Humoresque #7" is one of the most performed short piano pieces after "Fur Elise" and ...er... "Chopsticks" and I'd heard it for many years without knowing who composed it. He's one of my three or four favorite composers after the big three, so maybe he is underrated.
Jacqueline DU Pre immortalised Dvorak with
the cello Opus 104.
Sorabji, Scriabin, Alkan for the piano lovers
I personally think Dvořák's best work is his Romanca for violin! It is so lovely! :D I dream of my first love's face everytime i listen to it