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Hi Jung, I didn’t know that Liszt was such a womanizer. But I can well imagine that musicians and writers of his time had a large group of female fans. Coveted by women and shunned by the money. A special kind of destiny.
La Campanella is also a very beautiful piece of music. It builds up a nice suspense of tension between melodic and extravagant.
Liebeslied (love song) – with Caspar Joseph Mertz I would like to introduce a representative of the Romantic Era who has written wonderful guitar pieces.
He grew up in a poor family. At the age of 12 he was already giving guitar and flute lessons. In Vienna, where he lived from the fall of 1840 and performed as an esteemed guitar virtuoso, Mertz was active both as a teacher and as a concert musician. In Dresden Mertz met the pianist Josephine Plantin, whom he married in December 1842. His activities in Vienna took place against the background of the general decline of public interest in the guitar in Vienna (wiki)
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Only the best wishes also from me Bill. Enjoy the day.
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And this is the German artist:
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Hi David, I remember the discussion. We stopped at the topic “Krautrock”. 🙂
I’m glad you like this kind of music and I’m serious now. You associate a lot of good memories with it. I don’t want to badmouth these beautiful memories. For me it’s the other way around. And actually you are one step ahead of me and I understand what you want to say: listening to music without having intellectual scissors in your head. And it is much better to remember beautiful things and focus on positive aspects in life than to tell each other what you don’t like. Yes David, “Schlagzeug” literally means you beat (or knock) the drum. The term „Schlager“ roughly means: You can beat or defeat another opponent in competition. If you succeed, then you are the „Schlagerkönig“ (beat king).
Hi Jung, when i think of a prominent british performer who participated in the european song contest, Cliff Richard spontaneously comes to mind. He took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1968 and came second. One reason why music professionals kept more and more distance from that event: no famous musician wanted to be rated badly there. And the unknown musicians were usually not successful after the competition.
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Thanks for your reply Jung. I had never known exactly how the intro of this special Beatles song was made until I came across this instrument. To me, the Mellotron is a precursor to the synthesizer. A completely different technology I know, but the idea behind it is the same: how can I create a variety of different sounds and tones with just one instrument. Even new or previously unknown sounds.
And here’s another treat, for your tech-loving heart: One of the first commercial drumming machines. The young man who moderates the video should perhaps drink a cup of valerian tea and take a deep breath. Then he would be more relaxed. Maybe another nice topic: unusual video moderators 🙂
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Franz Liszt : Liebestraum (1850)
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Thanks for Baenjamin Zander’s contribution, Jung. Very entertaining.
And here is a love song composed about 180 years ago. On the eve of their marriage, in September 1840, Robert Schumann presented a collection of songs to his beloved Clara as a wedding present—something he had kept completely secret from her for months (so it is said)
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And again my musical horizon has expanded 🙂 This is another song I have not heard before. Very nice selection.
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Wow Diana, 3 posts on this topic at once. Cool. That’s fun.
A beautiful song by Shirley Manson, which I did not know before. I have somewhere and somehow already heard of the band Garbage. I like the music very much. Is the whole album in this style?
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Cool mix Leif. Thanks for that. Female musicians like Dua Lipa, Avril Lavigne are definitely underrepresented here on the forum. I really like the music of both of them. It has something fresh and unconsumed. And the drum covers are great. For support, I found even more female power. So stay strapped in.
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Perfect Tom: “Aber mein Herz schlägt nicht für Schlager, mein Herz schlägt für Rock’n Roll” (you understand me) 🙂
Vanessa Mai, Melissa Naschenweig, Beatrice Egli and Helene Fischer? I think you’re turning into a real Schlager music expert, Tom. We’ve talked about it before: the boundaries between Schlager and pop music are sometimes fluid and the interpreters you mentioned basically have a lot of potential.
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I hope I got that right now. This is the song Norway will enter the competition with:
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David, when I think of Norwegian music, Rebekka Bakken or Simen Mitled spontaneously comes to mind. I like this kind of music.
Oh and then there was the Norwegian singer Wencke Myhre in the 60s and 70s. She sang German „Schlager“ songs (You can’t translate the term „Schlager“. The term originated in 1870 in Austria, more precisely in the operetta scene in Vienna. It is a synonym for the English word „hit“). Wencke Myhre sang such highlights like “Er hat ein knallrotes Gummiboot” („He has a bright red rubber boat“) or “Er steht im Tor“ („He is standing in the soccer goal“). If you are interested, just watch the videos on youtube, then you will understand why I have a disturbed relationship to „Deutsche Schlagermusik“. 🙂
This German “Schlager” can also be found again and again in songs for the European Song Contest, which brings me back to the topic again.
Sorry a lot Leif. My little musical journey to Norway leaves your topic a bit.
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Thanks for the hint Tom. I still remember Golden Earing and their hit Radar Love. Yes it’s a Dutch band, I just checked. I did not know that. I hope you’re doing fine.
The storyline, as requested:
