Piano!

From my current video game project: Court of Ashes. It’s a medieval game centered around regality. I’m tinkering with orchestrations for the main theme, this one being the most majestic.

I’m already interested in the game for its music haha

“In English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.” Daniel Barenboim

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Not enough people named WOLFGANG these days smh what’s with that

It sounds like the music that foreshadows a boss fight.

Rachmaninoff - Symphony no. 2 in e minor

Rachmaninoff’s first attempt at the symphony was a nightmare. His first, under the baton of drunk and disorderly Glazunov, was such a failure in concert, he doubted his own ability as a composer and fell into writer’s block and depression. After years of therapy, he regained his confidence and started writing the works that would become his most popular and beloved. That’s the story everyone knows, the one we like to celebrate. He wrote this symphony while he was in Dresden, where he also wrote his first piano sonata [which is somewhat neglected] and his tone poem Isle of the Dead [which is not] as well as his third piano concerto [which some consider his masterpiece]. This work is organic in that it has a sense of building and developing on its own, following direction but without sounding forced. That’s why I find it upsetting when I read about some of Rachmaninoff’s contemporaries, and other conductors, who try to cut the work down. One edition cuts out a good 20 minutes of music! 20 minutes! Can you imagine any conductor today trying to cut out half of a Beethoven symphony? Or a Mahler symphony? It seems to be a case of trying to revise the work so it can be easier for audiences to digest, to the expense of the work’s structural integrity, and is a bit of an insult to the general public. You can sit still for an hour and listen. It’s worth it. The first movement is a murky and ominous one that is threaded with more nostalgic melodies, I remember listening to this work while driving home from my aunt’s house on Christmas. I watched snowflakes fall in the dark on the highway. It was so ordinary but beautiful to watch. The second movement is an energetic scherzo with fun orchestral writing and great use of percussion. The third movement is the most popular with its luscious melodies, like a Hollywood love theme. The finale is one big jubilation that ends the symphony on a high note. From pain to joy. It gets better.

Movements:

1. Largo - Allegro moderato

2. Allegro molto

3. Adagio

4. Allegro vivace

I didn’t mention it before, but another one of my Christmas traditions is to listen to this symphony, late in the evening, after all of the family fun, because the first movement is so hypnotic and melancholic and it touches me despite the booze and laughter. I mean, is it cliched of me to associate so much Russian music with Christmas? Probably. But whatever.

this has probably been done before but

Probably my biggest struggle

Classical Music + ❄️⛄❄️⛄ Winter ⛄❄️⛄❄️

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“I never lie down at night without reflecting that – young as I am – I may not live to see another day.”

226 years ago today, on December 5th, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at the age of 35.

I just wanted to take the time to say how much Mozart has shaped me, because if it wasn’t for him and his brilliant music, I wouldn’t be the person I am today. So thank you, Wolfgang, thank you so much.

227. Another year has passed and I still have to thank you, Herr Mozart. You still continue to inspire me every single day.

First movement of Rachmaninoffs Second Symphony

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