16 year old that loves classical music,so what?

Question

Yeahh, that's correct!
I love classical music,I love composers..and John Williams fascinates me! Why is it so strange, I guess because the majority of students now days are into common hits that you hear daily on the radio,not that I don't like them..I just really enjoy listening to classical music ;]

Now,to my point any suggestions on composers and great classical music i should download on my mp3 player.

Thank you.

Currently listening to:

Beethoven's 9th symphony

Wow! Thank you guys, this honestly helped me a lot.I no longer feel so alone and my love for classical music has enriched.

I cannot choose a best answer their all too good,I'll let yahoo choose.

Thank you once again!
:) Feel free to email me anytime.
Take care~

Answer 1

Go you! I'm 15 and I also adore classical music (it's my favorite). I am a pianist, in fact, and playing the piano is such a big part of my life. Anyway, some personal recommendations are listed here. The first couple are for piano.

1) Ravel's Jeux d'eau
2) Debussy's L'Isle Joyeuse
3) Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1 and Nocturne Op. 27 No. 2
4) Liszt's La Campanella
5) Brahm's Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2
6) Chopin's Barcarolle Op. 60
7) Stravinsky's Danse Russe from "Petrouchka"

now for some others...

1) Mussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain
2) Dvorak's Symphony No. 8
3) Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2, 1st movement
4) Shostakovich's Quartet No. 3, 3rd movement
5) Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture
6) Vaughan William's Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis and Fantasia on Greensleeves
7) Saint-Saen's Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah"
8) Debussy's Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

I hope these work out for you. There's a lot more I love; these are just the ones I could think of off the top of my head.

Answer 2

DON'T WORRY YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!! And BRAVO for you for making an informed and intelligent CHOICE as to what you like in music rather than going with the herd. You don't like the herd music because it is NOT not NOT interesting music. It's repetitive, dull and boring. It is mindless and canned. It is NOT innovative- it follows trends rather than making them.
Beethoven is everything that pop music is not: Changing, challenging, brilliant, never repetitive to dullness,always striving to remain interesting.
Suggestions: WHERE to begin? There's so much! Well, do the whole cycle of Beethoven Symphonies. All nine- they're all wonderful. Then do the four Brahms, the Schumann symphonies, the last five of Mozart- then all the other 35 odd ones he wrote. Then grab some Haydn symphonies - there are over 100. Tried Bach yet? You have a wonder in store for you in JS Bach. You'll love the Brandenburg concertos.
Gad there's too much to even try to cover - Beethoven Piano concertos - 5 of them ! Ludwig Van string quartets - and on and on.
When ya get down to it there is actually more good music than bad to listen to because there are hundred of years of music history behind fine composition. The bad pop music of today really ain't that old compared to Bach stuff written in 1700!
And check out www.wclv.com! An ALL classical radio station - they have a program called Classical kids. Also check out the youth orchestras like the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. You're not alone!

Answer 3

I'm as old as you are and I love classical music. I not only love it but play it as well. I play the guitar, oboe, and flute.
Suggestions to my favorite composers:
1. John Williams: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones
2. JS. Bach: Bourree, Jesus Bleitbet Meine Freude
3. Mozart: Jupiter, The Magic Flute
4. Beethoven: 5th symphony, 9th symphony, 6th symphony, Fur Elise
5. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Nutcracker
6. Vivaldi: Spring from the Four Seasons
7. Yanni
8. De Liebes: Coppelia
9. Bizet: Carmen, Chason du Toreador
10. Chopan: Minuet

Answer 4

Number one, you are NOT weird, those other students are just punks who don't understand the great classics! I recommend buying all the london symphony's value pack cd's and digitize them to your mp3 player, i am 13 and share the love for classical music, and maybe, get some of all the composers, i hope you mp3 player can hold up to 30,000 songs, because that's how many classics you should have on your mp3 player.

Answer 5

I would have to say that classical music is the only venue that allows me to recharge my batteries. I used to stutter and stammer as a child, and sometimes still do as an adult. When I have these speech attacks, the wife knows to put in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony - he talks to me and tells me it's okay, and that I should come back. If I did not have that connection to classical music, my life probably would have ended a long time ago. Depression and I are old companions, and Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and others, including my wife, are the only defense I have against it.

Answer 6

So what is your question?
I too love classical music, Prog Rock, and Punk.
Now, to your point - I do not have an mp3 player, I listen to music on CD or online radio. My suggestion for classical music you should listen to/download is:
(Dmitri) Shostakovich - Symphonies 5 and/or 7. Enjoy!

Answer 7

It depends on if you like minor (sad) keys or major(happy keys) some good Major artist would be Mozart, some of Beethoven, Bach and Diabelli. Some good minor artist would be Chopin, Rachmonioff, and you will generally find that the russian composers in general write "heavy" music. Then there are some of you in between artist like Satie and Ravel or just your impressionistic composers. You will probably also want to study periods (renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, impressionistic, modern) because they all have their own qualities and you may find that you like one period more than the others.

Answer 8

Yeah well, some people like you are stuck in the past, it's not a bad thing, really it's not, you were just like me before. My whole life was just classical music but after I started to listen to the modern songs I started drifting away. I listen to classical and modern day songs 50/50, it's just some people tend to relax more with classical songs and the modern teenager would hate these songs because they are really old and ancient so they wouldn't want to listen to it.

Answer 9

Steph
Good for you! It seems as though there's some sort of corealtion between a love of classical music and intelligence :)
My taste in music has evolved over the years, but a love for classical has always remained.
Please give a listen to Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances", my personal favorites...happy listening! :)

Gamefreak---try your local National Public Radio station.

Answer 10

Don't take this wrong--you totally rock!

Most of what gets airplay on radio is unimaginative, forgettable pap. You're not missing a damned thing.

Consider Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," my absolutely favorite classical piece. It's in movie soundtracks and may sound familiar.

"Viens, Mallika" is the two-soprano aria from "Lakmé" by Léo Delibes that many people who don't care for opera admire. (You've probably heard it in ads.)

Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique and Orff's, Carmina Burana are powerful, wonderful pieces, probably familiar.

I'm a Bach lover, too, especially the fugues.

FWIW, some sub-genres of metal rely heavily on classic-style composition and rich layering, repeated modes, etc.