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Great, now do every minor composers greatest melody

While I certainly appreciate the effort and could agree that tastes certainly differ, the slides claiming that Haydn or Beethoven weren't particularly good melodists look quite misplaced and taunting.

I don't have anything to add in terms of compliments on this video that hasn't already been said. This must have been an enormous undertaking! Thank you. Some personal additions from me (might end up adding more later): Bach: Mass in B Minor, 1st Kyrie Corelli: the fugue subject in D major that Handel ripped off in his Hallelujah Chorus (for the lord God omnipotent reigneth) Handel: the G major flute tune from Water Music (I think it's technically a minuet?) Mozart: - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, opening theme - Clarinet Concerto, 2nd movement, 1st theme - Flute Concerto in G, 2nd movement, 1st theme Beethoven: Emperor Concerto, 2nd movement (I think this theme was mentioned in passing in this video) Schubert: - Octet, 1st movement, 2nd theme - "Great" Symphony in C major, 2nd movement, 2nd theme Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, 1st movement, 1st theme (maybe as close as I can think of to a perfect melody) Max Bruch: Symphony No. 1, opening theme Brahms: Symphony No. 1, 2nd movement, violin solo theme Tchaikovsky: same as you, plus just about every theme in his violin concerto, and the variation theme from his piano trio Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony, slow movement Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No. 3, 3rd movement, opening theme Bruckner: cannot dispute yours Mahler: Symphony No. 2, 5th movement, "Aufersteh'n" (makes me weep) Strauss: Alpine Symphony, summit theme Korngold: Piano Quintet, 2nd movement (hard to choose just from the quintet, every theme is amazing, but I just had to go with that one) Scriabin: - Symphony No. 1, 6th movement, the theme the solo voices come in with - Symphony No. 2, 3rd movement, 1st theme Rachmaninoff: cannot dispute Sibelius: Symphony No. 1, 4th movement, 2nd theme Schoenberg: the woefully underrated Notturno for Strings and Harp Barber: Violin Concerto, 2nd movement John Williams: "Leaving Hogwarts" from Harry Potter Eric Whitacre: The River Cam

Gershwin has so many different songs that contain amazing memories i think he shines most in his Concerto

in some of these i cant hear the melodies..

As a Dane I know and appreciate Carl Nielsen for his beautiful melodies to songs and hymns more than his orchestral work. I think his most beautiful melody is "Mit hjerte altid vanker", which is a Christmas hymn: th-cam.com/video/TTCDnDMnYkc/w-d-xo.html

I feel like I have to mention Alkan’s Op. 13 No. 3, which falls in the category of “way too similar to not be referencing it, but we don’t know for sure”

I disagree on nearly all your choices. Sorry

You should do another of these amazing videos and include some guitar composers like Sor or Tarrega. Maybe someone Celtic influenced like O'Carolan as well.

I think the Schumann Toccata is harder than an 8

You know the list is about to get crazy fast when you see Feux Follets mentioned as the "easiest" of the 10 works.

SOMEONE MAKE A PLAYLIST PLEASE

I find it entertaining that everyone feels obligated to preference their enjoyment of Wagner with his very un-unique and widely shared social commentary of his time. No one else gets that treatment 😂

Intriguing u put Prokofiev 8 at 8+ same as 3rd concerto. Granted difficylty is subjective but as someone who performed Sonata 8 like almost a week ago (for juries) I wouldnt dare attempt the 3rd concerto

What about Simeon ten Holt? Is he not considered a major composer (it's a genuine question, not being ironic) (and Carl Orff)?. How were you able to choose between the contemporary composeres which one's are "major"? Also, wouldn't film composers also be allowed in this category? Either wat, great compilation and descriptions, it brought their music and/or character to life more than a more conventional description would!

A great collection. I particularly like the small bit of text that accompanies each composer, full of interesting detail and historical context.

Great music! Thank you very much!

Who tf is Stravinsky to diss VIvaldi?

This is a masterpiece. Thank you!!

That excerpt from Norma was amazing. I was hoping you would pick that piece from Shostakovich and you did. Chopin was also a very good choice

This is a tour d force of music education. The author should be a university professor.

yes but have you heard like a virgin

I wonder how Bizet and Carmen can be not included

The Hymn: Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken is based on Haydn's string quartet Emperor. Beautiful ❤

I've played n.10, 3 and 2 from this list and yeah, I can confirm everything you've said about these pieces in the description amd subtitles

I think it’s fair to say that Mozart wrote some of the best melodies of all time. Even though some are very simple, they’re incredibly catchy and just get stuck in your brain. Some of my favorite Liszt pieces are his reminiscences on opera works. The way he takes a theme and combines it with another then expands on it is amazing. In my opinion no one is better at those types of work than Liszt

This is wonderful, thank you so much for putting this together, phantastic choices.

one of my favorite descriptions of the Bach violin sonatas / partitas and cello suites is: "they aren't difficult because they have flying up bow staccato tenth runs and double harmonics. they're difficult because there's an entire world of ideas and thoughts that have to be expressed in the music, all while not letting any technical challenges show, and keeping the music flowing and consistent the whole time."

Did I miss Stravinsky and/or Bernstein?...in any list of notorious composers, I would think or be very interested in the reasoning.

1:09:46

A video about great melodists and not a single tune by Richard Rodgers.

in baroque it was obviously more dangerous to go to the eye specialst than to go to the dentist... great list

so, is it just me, or in Rzewski's Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, when the more traditional chords start playing, I hear a direct lift from Rach's 2nd, and halfway thru after the roar, i hear a lot of Rhapsody in Blue.

This is so good! I don't think you realize how many people will watch this from beginning to end. Btw, what do you think of Rossini's Stabat Mater? There are some great melodies there.

Is wagner for "normies"? Lots of people like him cause hes "based" aka Nazi. To me he just sounds very unique and he is my favorite out of the several composers i have listened to.

I was thinking Vedro con mio diletto for vivaldi and I was correct

It's actually very improbable that Beethoven based the opening motif from his Eroica around the overture to Mozart's 'Bastien und Bastienne'. The youthful opera had no certified premiere during his lifetime (the story of it being produced in the garden of Dr. Franz Mesmer was only brought to the light in an unverified account of Georg Nikolaus von Nissen), and the first known performance was on 2 October 1890. It fell out of the repertoire almost completely, receiving its first complete, date-verified recording in 1952 under Sir John Pritchard on the Philips label.

Florence price is on this list but not howells or Stanford? Lol

This is one of the best channels dedicated to classical music I've stumbled upon. I don't know why I haven't done this before but now I'm subbed

4:55 Isn't S. 464 no.9 mvt.4?

That’s a great video!

does that mean Bach stole a lot of ideas from composers before him?

Shostakovich is my favourite composer but I haven't found the time to listen to most of his pieces. His popular music is so tragic, the pieces I've heard at least, but I guess he wasn't all despair after all. This convinced me that he had real genius and could have been one of the sweetest sounding composers in history, if the times allowed it.

This feels more than just a "composers greatest melody" video, it's a brief overview of hundreds of musical geniuses in history at their best. What these people lived for was the songs they composed so this is 3 hours 47 minutes of people sharing their best selves with us from the past.

There are so many composers I've never heard before. They're all haunting me now. Barbara Strozzi is in my closet 😦

If Richard Wagner ever thought anything near what you tell he did; then YES; he was quite right about his own work. #Wagner #TristanundIsolde

No Scnitka?

Vladimir Goodar should be on the list.

Great video! Never realised the Dvorak - Schubert connection

The import of that Mozart piece is, Misericordia Domini becomes Ode to Joy - The Lord's Mercy being the Wondrous Potential of Human(ist) Joy! I don't agree about the Dvořák slow movement, - tunes are naturally quite similar to each other, usually - but the opening to the scherzo is undeniably conscious.