vanderb0b: A Beginner's Guide To Classical Music

vanderb0b 09.06.10	Tried to not overwhelm you with stuff, while giving you a large range of various styles/instruments. Enjoy, amigos!
Maniac! 09.06.10	#1 at #1 is correct. my most favorite composer of all time
JWT155 09.06.10	Your the man.
ButcheredChildren 09.06.10	well aren't you a sweetheart
vanderb0b 09.06.10	@ Maniac: He's not my favorite composer, but that is definitely the most essential classical piece I know of.
Jesuslaves 09.06.10	wut
ArizonaBay97 09.06.10	List is great. Chopin's Nocturnes are so good.
Maniac! 09.06.10	" He's not my favorite composer" It's not gonna work out between us. It's not you, it's me. We can still be friends.
OvrotLivesAgain 09.06.10	List Needs Carl Orff.
vanderb0b 09.06.10	I'm sorry Maniac! I'm sorry. I prefer Chopin by just that much. Thanks for reminding me about Orff, added him in.
OvrotLivesAgain 09.06.10	Yeah, with Carl Orff now this list is perfect.
qwe3 09.06.10	if you can play 6 i have so much respect for you
qwe3 09.06.10	and whaat no prokofiev :(
scissorlocked 09.06.10	whoa!!!here is the list i was looking for!!!thanks man
JWT155 09.06.10	Yea, no prokofiev? *quickly goes wiki who the fuck that is...
vanderb0b 09.06.10	@qwe Nope, can't play 6. I can play both the Muse songs that sample that concerto, although. Never really got into Prokofiev, aside from his Romeo and Julliet stuff, I'd appreciate it if you rec'd me a good place to start with him.
Masochist 09.06.10	Masochist's Abridged Beginner's Guide To Classical Music: #1: FANTASIA #2: FANTASIA 2000 (Just kidding, of course ;-). But a few of my favorite pieces came from the first movie, specifically Bach's "Toccata & Fugue in D-Minor" and Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain."
vanderb0b 09.06.10	Those movies were awesome, really helped me get into the genre.
AnotherBrick 09.06.10	you need to add all of these to the database
vanderb0b 09.06.10	Will do so sometime, might review a couple too.
qwe3 09.06.10	with prokofiev i'd start with his piano concerto no. 5 and piano sonata no. 8
BlueW 09.06.10	gud list site needz moar classical freaks
ConsiderPhlebas 09.06.10	Sweet
vanderb0b 09.06.10	I'll check those out qwe, thanks! I agree, BlueW, Sputnik does need more classical fans, and thank you for giving me the idea, Phlebas.
ConsiderPhlebas 09.06.10	No worries. Cheers for doing it.
VicariousIntent 09.06.10	No Vivaldi? I think Four Seasons is a fantastic way to get into the genre.
Jebull 09.06.10	Rachmaninoff was a beast though. Literally, the guy was huge.. haha also, where would a good place to find these be?
vanderb0b 09.06.10	Vivaldi is yet another person I forgot, adding him in. Thanks! As for Gorecki, I like his work, but I doubt that it would be a good rec for someone just discovering the genre. @Jebull If you go to youtube, searching the title of the piece and the performer will give you most of these. As for getting an mp3, that's a bit harder. I'm fairly certain that a google search of the title/performer will get you good results.
Sheeple9000 09.06.10	Props for Tchaikovsky at the top. Some “modern” picks: Erik Satie, Samuel Barber, Philip Glass
WoggleBunny 09.06.10	I'm kind of suprised by the lack of Vivaldi on this list. Great list nonetheless... oh, I see that the afoesaid was addressed... cough
McCopper 09.06.10	It's hard for me to get into classical music because of the titles. "Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2" Just name it "Dying rose of the incredibly cliche song title" and get on with it, I will remember that when I want to listen to it.
geng 09.06.10	So glad someone made a list like this, been wanting to get into classical for a while now. God bless you vanderb0b.
vanderb0b 09.06.10	@Bunny Yeah, originally forgot Vivaldi along with a few other, so I added them into 25's description. @McCopper It does get pretty overwhelming when a composer has a few hundred pieces, all of which don't have song titles. A few of the more famous compositions (Pathetique/Moonlight/Waldstein sonatas, Revolutionary etude, etc) have been given names by the general public or sheet music editors in order to make them more memorable.
vanderb0b 09.06.10	No problem, geng! @Sheeple I'm familiar with Satie and Barber, both of which are good. I'll listen to some Glass.
starry 10.24.10	Plenty missing such as Schubert, Haydn. No Debussy, Wagner. No really modern composers.
vanderb0b 10.24.10	Yeah, I wasn't really trying to include everything, and really with so many classical composers out there, it would be pretty impossible to have everybody on here. Rather, I was aiming to make a list of music that would be accessible to somebody just starting to listen to the genre.
Jethro42 10.24.10	Verrry interesting... yet another great list to bookmark. I'm surprised you didn't include Tchaikovsky's piano concerto no1, one of the greatest piece of the Romantic era.
vanderb0b 10.24.10	Thanks, man. "I'm surprised you didn't include Tchaikovsky's piano concerto no1" I did, it's the first thing on here.
Jethro42 10.24.10	awww I'm sorry! My coffee is not strong enough and I need a pair of glasses, it seems.
Maniac! 10.24.10	Tchaikovsky is only the best composer ever
fr33convict 10.24.10	No really modern composers. That's because old classical > new classical
Jethro42 10.24.10	Yeah, progressive rock owes a lot to Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Bach and Chopin among others
Skimaskcheck 10.24.10	Nice list, i better get on checking some of this out
pencils3 10.30.10	Stenhammer 2?
vanderb0b 10.31.10	Gotta admit that I've never heard of Stenhammar before, looked up some of his stuff, and it's pretty fantastic. Thanks!
Aids 10.31.10	There should be a system in place for adding classical music to the database.