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I must recognize; we no longer see war and battle as "jolly".

this piece feels like a musical ice pick in my frontal lobe

Tim Henson from Polyphia Ibanez guitar was inspired by a guitar he bought from a pawn shop in Germany. A failed Ibanez guitar 1998 SC500N Solidbody Nylon.

It's a standard classical composer of the time using the standard tropes. Certainly not ingenious but "competent" enough to not be entirely boring. Some of it is very Haydnesque, but not at Haydn's level.

I'm sorry, but it is a good thing you don't teach "music appreciation" anymore.

Great playing, sound awesome! What amp are you playing through? I bought a cordoba stage and have been using a fishman loudbox mini. I own a JC-40 that i'm going to test it with also!

Interesting you said it's like a "bad parody of Mozart" - I was going to comment, "Finally, something worse than Mozart." Anyway, can I suggest, when we imprison the totalitarian overlords, we play this to them on a loop? He actually has no understanding of basic harmony. In God Save the Queen/King/Non-binary Monarch, he returns to the tonic where it should be the super- or subdominant. I mean, forget all the nice extended harmonies that are ALWAYS in the piece if you want, and just bang out Is, IVs and Vs, but for Fs sake, put them in the right order! I disagree with you about repeated sections, however. *Sometimes* it makes sense to miss them out, but there is a particularly wonderful experience that happens - particularly for people who haven't heard the piece before (most of any audience) or don't know it well - when the section is repeated. Besides, in baroque music, you're not supposed to just repeat it, you play it differently, often adding ornaments or changing the timbre. Anyway, this was one of the funniest videos I've seen in a while, I laughed through most of it, thanks. "The Battle of Prague"? Yeah, maybe, for the Commodore 64.

Silent film composer!

This is funny! PDQ Bach!

The faster part is super for a chase scene in a silent movie🤣. Then the fully dimished chord comes up later, where the villain ties the damsel in distress to the railroad tracks

Retired former band director here: My choice for worst classical music is Maurice Ravel's Boléro, it is a repetitive classical music piece that features two melodies repeated eight or nine times. Ever try to play or conduct that and not get lost? lol...even my turmpet professor in college hated it lol. I also hate the Four Seasons [no, not the old singing group!] by Vivaldi or almost any of his other pieces, just about everyone of them has the same old chord progressoins and constant violin double time bowing chords. Annoying. Then I am a hypocrite because I like the Beatles Hey Jude, the 4 minutes of "NANANANANANANA" over and over 🤣 and God how I hate polka bands hahhahahahaha

this is not new,, I have a Yamaha aex 500n2 from 2007... and Gibson made a Chet atkins nylon before th-cam.com/video/ZOv2kuQeXAA/w-d-xo.html

I also feel like his transitions from a more Allegro tempo to an Adante tempo are poorly tied together. There is no translation at all; it is just an abrupt stop with a cord into a new section that sounds like a completely different piece.

The way you react and explain your thoughts, you do it in a funny way. I keep laughing. This is a great video

11:44 I heard that repeating the exposition in a sonata is crucial so that listeners can “memorize” the main themes A and B to get ready for the development section? I’m not too sure tho

LOL Just one observation about repeated sections, used all the way through the Romantic era. The repetition was to familiarize the listeners with the music. They likely hadn't heard it before, nor were they likely to hear it again - there were no recordings. In effect, it was a courtesy. That said, repeating sections with repeated phrases and "licks" is an insult to the listener. Funny, but I do hear echoes of Vivaldi in this piece. Instead, we could talk about the cheesy Wellington's Victory by Beethoven, also simplistic and militaristic, purposefully so, but infinitely better in spite of its awfulness.

people over here comparing this composer to mozart and saying it's not that different do not understand music in this era or even early beethoven. classical music is not about having complex or ground breaking ideas. it's about complex ways you treat simple ideas. if you truly want to compare these two, instead of comparing a single measure or even phrase, compare the entire piece. there is just so many obvious differences between the two. also i dont consider this piece all that bad,especially the first movement

Gibson used to sell one called the Chet Atkins signature

Mozart died the same year as this composer. I already fail to recall his name because it’s as difficult as his compositions. Mozart didn’t die the same way though.

The software that transcribed this is interesting in that it doesn't think at all about music theory. For example, there are a number of D major chords notated as D Gflat A which is technically correct but not what a human would do.

Well, if you put mozart in a midi piano it will sound not better. You have no idea about classical music

It's really not bad at all tbh Though God save the King wasn't even harmonised well which is a big sin in my book as a Brit

I wonder if we gave a piece by Mozart and say it was this composer, he would think as bad of it

It sounds a lot like five sisters at tea. If that's what happened at the Battle of Prague, then he nailed it. Funny that Beethoven ended Wellington's victory with God saved the Queen...

Sounds like generic video games music.

This is so beautiful! Keep up the great work! 😃

One of the worst things about this whole thing is how stupidly easy some sections are where others are essentially impossible to play at tempo

Your comment at :50 was prophetic. The new Ibanez Tim Henson model is in such demand that they're on 6-8 months of back order. I've been a Godin nylon string player for 25 years and mine finally went to the big gig bag in the sky and so I'm looking at all the newer options. This one sounds really nice - thanks for the excellent video!

I don't agree that any artwork can be objectively bad. There can be a consensus of opinion that something is bad, but that is not "an objective fact". Standards of badness or goodness are social constructs. Some of my current favorite works of art seemed "bad" to me at first, and they forced me to redraw my personal definitions of good and bad. But yeah, I don't like "The Battle of Prague" much, either.

7:33 dafuq prokofiev doing here (well, it's the opening of his etude 2, op.4, I mean it's exactly the same)

Yep, musically terrible but would be a perfect accompaniment to a Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd film.

i like it

Iam specialist in baroque and We need to repeted in baroque to improvise upon the harmoni that the composer gives in the first part as the same in the second ! !

This is the typical clickbait video, so unecessary for get views, and even more bad is aparently a video of a university teacher, what a shame.

I'm a "classical" musician, whatever, I think you went a bit arrogant analyzing this. This composition has just a standard style of that era, not everybody are meant to be a genius or original or, even more, backed by marketing. And it's just so awful to listen to this with a digital program, even many works from great composers sound bad in a computer, try listening to Chopin nocturnes, they are horrible

Really concise explanation 👍👍👍

I've been listening to classical music daily for 35 years and while Frantisek will win no awards for his compositions, he is BY NO MEANS the worst composer who ever lived.

For me, it is just generic, but it isn’t that bad…

It has interesting bits and fragments, but it feels like a bunch of unconnected first ideas strung together

Your C10 has a truss rod

To me this piece is like a lead guitarist who bust our a solo that goes absolutely nowhere for 5 minutes. Playing scales up and down is about as interesting as watching grass grow.

It sounds like a piece you'd hear accompanying a cheesy, Keystone Cop silent film.

HOT TAKE: Mozart is NOT that much better than this guy.

Fascinating topic - but know your topic so well you don't have to edit between Each and Every Sentence. Ugh.

This piece sounds like a smile that doesn't reach the eyes

Reminds me of a 1913 Midwestern movie house, with the piano accompanist trying to keep pace with the action on the screen.

Massa

0:28 I find it fitting that I'm seeing this video on my first day of music appreciation lol

Wow. Never heard of this guy. It kind of sounds like a cheesy soundtrack to a silent movie from the 1920's.

One most annoying thing right in the beginning is the "stumbling" base which sounds like someone falling down (or up) a stair. It's comically, "unhandy". There an Alberti Bass would have come in very nicely. Also, too much syncronizity between the hands in rythmic terms. Very stiff and harsh! No variation in the right hand between chords and single notes. It's like dark bread with white bread instead of any bread with butter. The melody has potential though. I think, it could be worth another try. Well, I stopped listening after the first repetition of the first little theme.