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Owl  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Best Classical composers -Who are yours? What's missing from the list?

Never heard of him, but just this:

    "As a pacifist of deep conviction Bridge was scarred by the misery caused by World War I. It is known that he was so distressed by the news from the battlefields that he would wander the streets by himself at night, mulling over the carnage."

sounds like something I'd do, which makes me like him just for that. The piano sonata you link to is quite beautiful. Sometimes it reminds me of the style the impressionist composers, specifically Debussy, use. I really enjoyed listening to it. It's a piece that makes me think of the words magical and subtle as descriptions.





Baladas  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Exactly. It comes across as sad to me, almost. Somehow, and it also sounds like full-blown impressionism to me, not really modern.