ITT: Artists or composers that people use to sound smart when really it just means their knowledge is very limited.
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I always laugh when people think this is good taste
>>53308206
When people claim that Bach or Mozart aren't great.
>>53308206
but he's actually good. it's sort of like namedropping Mingus or something
>>53308206
Schonberg
Miles Davis
>>53308266
>Mingus
this. ultimate pseudo-intellectual music.
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>>53308206
How is Stravinsky not smart
>>53308206
I like some Stockhausen but he is a prime case
Also John Cage
>>53308429
>le epic 4'33 meme joke xD
>>53308520
What?
>>53308206
what if people say they like them because they actually like them? am i crazy?
>>53308715
OP didn't mean it was always the case, he just referred to composers prone to being namedropped by people with little knowledge
Debussy is a favorite of people who don't actually listen to classical music but feel the need to namedrop at least one composer to appear eclectic.
>>53308422
He's the most entry level an d possibly least challenging 20th century composer.
>>53308269
Nah cause at least it means they know about serialism.
>>53309228
>He's the most entry level an d possibly least challenging 20th century composer.
that would be george gershwin.
>>53309228
>He's the most entry level an d possibly least challenging 20th century composer.
>>53309228
>He's the most entry level an d possibly least challenging 20th century composer.
Gustav Holst and everyone who ever did score for a hollywood movie would like to talk to you in private.
>>53308206
John Coltrane
Thelonius Monk
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
>>53309619
I like gustav holst but i agree with this.
Is Bruckner pleb?
>>53309800
No.
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>>53309960
>the internets busiest music nerd
>>53309228
>implying music is smart because it's challenging
>implying entry level isn't just a cop-out to deride something considered classic
>>53308340
>>53308266
Fuck off. Mingus and Stravinsky are both gods.
>>53309228
>least challenging
>challenging = good
>>53308206
Is it just me, or does Stravinsky totally look like MJK from Tool in this photo?
>>53308923
romantic music in general is pleb central of western classical.
>>53310451
Well, it and Minimalism are a shared throne.
Two different kinds of plebeians.
>>53310470
nah, the popular composers between haydn and debussy are the plebbiest. and vivaldi, of course.
alternate challenge: name composers who, while popular, are rarely namedropped by people who don't listen to classical. my vote is for lully.
>>53310191
yeah, i agree. it's just that when someone says "mingus, le list on and on..." they probably don't know much about jazz in the first place.
>>53310550
Purcell, Gluck, perhaps Janacek.
People who don't listen to period/historically informed performance recordings of Baroque, Classical and to a certain extent, some Romantic works are most plebeian.
>>53310608
i like purcell and i'm a complete classical pleb
What I have been listening to lately
>Terterian
>Wagenseil
>Monn
>Pichl
>CPE Bach
>Marcello
>Arne
>Hindemith
>Krommer
>Kozeluch
>Aho
>Viextemps
>Vivaldi
>Corelli
>Nielsen
>Johann Stamitz
>Feldman
>Biber
>Silvestrov
>Simpson
>>53310608
>Janacek
i fucking love janacek, and yeah you're probably right, although janacek was actually one of the first classical composers i started listening to. schumann also fits here.
>shut-ins talking shit about legitimately good composers
>>53310945
we aren't talking shit about them, it's just that they're the most name-dropped ones among plebs. that has nothing to do with the actual quality of their music.
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>>53310993
way to shit up the thread