Classical Music Recommendations
Users recommend classical music pieces and composers like Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, discuss performance challenges, public domain issues, and Bach's popularity on Hacker News in the context of a music recommendation tool.
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Classical music would be pretty awesome.
Give the Brandenburg Concertos a try. You will probably change your mind.
Well done!A comment: for classical music, it would be necessary to see the name of the composer. Currently, it's only the performing artist that's displayed in the interface.
That's a lot of classical music lol
Are they doing classical music?
Wild guess here, obviously I don’t know what everyone is thinking, but Bach’s music was very beautiful in an almost mathematical sense. Compositions where the right and left hand are exactly the same but delayed by a bar or two, pieces that are the same played forwards and backwards, etc... Bach was a true genius, as were Mozart and Beethoven, but I think the symmetry of Bach’s music around the axis of time and harmony could be why he’s more prevalent on HN.
Haha I just clicked the random button for masterpiece and it gave me Mozart's Requiem. I was looking at the recommendations based on the pieces I chose anyhow. I personally like to listen to various pretty obscure pieces by composers I like (dvorak's symphonies 1-4), and don't really go by genre, period etc. Maybe others will find it useful
I can read classical notation well enough for my purposes. I listen to Janacek, Sibelius, Delius, Schubert, Faure, Scriabin, Sorabji, Mompou, and other composers you would probably consider legitimate music. I just don't limit myself strictly to the music of dead white men.EDIT: Let's hear some music you've created, with all your vast ability and knowledge. I'll post some of my own and we can let HN users be the judge...
I find that going out to concerts is important to my understanding of this tradition. Seeing and hearing actual instruments helps to tease out the various lines of the music and make sense of it all. There isn't any recording system that can capture a performance of a Mahler symphony (or the Schoenberg Gurrelieder). And a small intimate chamber concert is a lot of fun too, a shared experience with strangers. Concerts are programmed with an eye for contrast and coherence, and you can
They do indeed! Have a listen to Clara Schumann:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvnznUFagY