breathethedownbow:

fyeahclassicalcomposers:

I dunno if you guys could tell, but I’m very into the lives of the Schumanns, and as an extension, Brahms, and I did a lot of research over a year about their stories and works and everything, and even incorporated a lot of those elements into my writing (including the names of people I mention henceforth)

So the other day we were assigned this academic reading in theory and I just completely lost my, excuse me, shit, because this guy decided that theory papers, especially those on metrical theory, were too boring so he wrote it as Eusebius, Raro, and Florestan, AKA Robert Schumann’s alternate personalities with which he wrote music reviews (most likely before his mental health began to take a turn) and potentially even pieces (afterwards)

The premise is that the theorist’s piece on metrical dissonance in Schumann’s works has been sent back through time and Eusebius and Florestan are reading it and commenting on it and if you think musicians or theorists are boring you better open your eyes for Johannes Brahms’ sake

and now you know I am not joking

but as you can see

there’s a reason I’m losing my shit

holy mother of Franz Liszt

coffee freaking models of dissonance

you thought you nightblogged huh

we are Chiarina

music theory fanfiction

complete with ship

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(background: in my NaNo 2011 novel, three of the characters were Raro, Eusebius, and Florestan and I just I cannot handle this)

tierradentro:

“Game of Chess“ (with detail), 1839, Josef Danhauser.

One of my favorite Biedermeier period works from my visit to the Belvedere Museum. The recurring subject is the victory of women over man - not only represented on the chessboard, but also as an allegory with the statue of Queen Omphale with her slave and future husband, Hercules. And yes, all odds are that the handsome gentleman sitting at the piano is none other than Franz Liszt.

(Apparently, the painting depicts a real event - a chess match between a banker named Escales and a Hungarian noble woman. They played because the lover of the noble woman had a big debt to this banker and that was the way she could gain back the debts - which she managed to do. Check the full story here.)

cimedu:

Love is in the air at the Cleveland Institute of Music…and it seems to be having a most peculiar effect on even the most serious and austere among us—from CIM’s student government’s holiday hugs and kisses to the composition of Valentines of all kinds.

Enjoy and share these playful Valentines with any of the music lovers in your life. Feel free to download and print them for the one(s) you love. You could even use them as CD covers for a “mixed tape” of romantic works.

LET’S GO BACK 2 BED CHOPIN

anotherpianist:

Liszt’s writing, Wenn die letzten Sterne bleichen

_{La Musique de Piano, I | [listen here] | a selection of enlightening piano compositions by Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn and Schumann}

_{i. liebestraume - liszt | ii. venetian gondolied - mendelssohn | iii. tristesse - chopin | iv. des abends - schumann | v. un sospiro - liszt | vi. lieder ohne worte op. 85 no. 1 - mendelssohn | vii. nocturne in c sharp minor - chopin | viii. von fremden landern - schumann | ix. au lac de wallendstadt - liszt | x. lieder ohne worte op. 30 no. 1 - mendelssohn | xi. raindrop prelude - chopin | xii. in der nacht - schumann | xiii. consolation no. 3 - liszt | xiv. romans sans paroles op. 19 no. 1 - mendelssohn | xv. nocturne op. 9 no. 1 - chopin | xvi. traumerei - schumann | xvii. mephisto waltz no. 1 - liszt | xviii. sonata op. 106 - mendelssohn | xix. prelude in e minor - chopin | xx.davidsbundlertanze - schumann | xxi. les adieux - liszt | xxii. fantasie op. 28 - mendelssohn | xxiii. ballade no. 1 in g minor - chopin | xxiv. piano sonata no. 1, mvmnt. 1 - schumann}

freedomnotincluded:

mean-old-levee:

dystolism:

Franz Liszt (1811-1886), the world’s first “rockstar”, he arguably composed some of the world’s most difficult piano pieces and made a storm in every city he went, the women went crazy for him, hence the term “Lisztomania”, (yes, Lisztomania, justlike the songbyPheonix). He was a complete womanizer and slept with women in every town, city and he was wanted dead by many fathers.

R u kidding me

no they’re not kidding his gloves were always ripped to pieces and he had many fans and wow i understand them 300% like look at that face damn he’s hot

i mean just look at his goddamn face where can you find a guy who’s just as angelic as he is sexy

mazariin:

My favorite classical composer

_{Frédéric Chopin | Antonio Vivaldi | W. Amadeus Mozart
Franz Lizst | Ludwig van Beethoven | Giuseppe Verdi
Niccolò Paganini | Pyotr I. Tschaikowsky | S. W. Rachmaninow}