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Hello everyone, I joined the site today, arriving via that of the Orchestra Virtuale del Flaminio, which is one of my favorite sites. I have been passionate about classical music for about forty years now, particularly the period ranging from fifteenth/sixteenth-century polyphony up to and including Beethoven, with less interest, barring rare exceptions, in the period following Beethoven.
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Oh a colleague!! Welcome!! I go from the polyphonic beginnings of the Notre Dame school to Schubert instead
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And then as a musician, I have a narrower range; excluding purely Renaissance vocal music, my repertoire ranges from Frescobaldi to Mozart, mainly due to problems with suitable instruments! Or I wouldn't have problems reaching up to Schubert or even some short pieces by Schumann that pique interest
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Hi, I have some music from before Dufay, but I never managed to love it as much as the period that begins with him; I own some Ockeghem, the Messe de Notre Dame, certainly yes, Gautier de Coincy, some Perotinus but little else, off the top of my head... A couple of years ago I discovered a wonderful record, the Requiem by Divitis/De Fevin (the attribution is uncertain), a record that I like very much... then Desprez and... everything that comes after... with the exception of operatic music, of which I like three or four things in total... I am not a musician anyway, just an enthusiast of listening and good sound systems... hi, thanks for the answer...
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As for me, I prefer the French composers of the 1300s more than the Flemish ones... De Vitary, Machaut, Dunstable... Also Dufay, but usually I prefer to skip directly to Orlando di Lasso and the Italian 1500s... I don't excessively love the early Flemish generations; obviously I know them, Desprez, Ockeghem... But I cannot deny that I favor a later Italian style, from Gabrieli to Palestrina to the Neapolitan school... I don't miss anything ahahaha
Well, opera... In the end, the 1600s can be summarized as Cavalli and Cesti, and between the two, I actually prefer Cavalli... Even though my preferences regarding operatic works also go toward Monteverdi...
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Ah well, if you're talking to me about the Gabrieli uncle and nephew and Palestrina, you're preaching to the choir.. I have some Cavalli, but as far as Monteverdi is concerned... after Beethoven and Bach senior, he is my favorite composer, certainly the greatest of the Italians of all time... I'll have about twenty editions of the Vespers of the Blessed Virgin... I know Lasso little, as well as the Neapolitan school...
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Lasso for compositional matters I had to analyze a good number of bicinia...Very interesting! Regarding the Vespers, currently I only own that of Savall, whereas I...On the other hand, however, I love L'Orfeo and I have all the madrigals.
Beethoven...I like him but I cannot say he is among my favorites...Personally, I have a style more like Mozart and Haydn...Even on the instrument, I am reviving quite a lot of repertoire, including that of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
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