MacDowell - "Praeludium" from Second Modern Suite

[AkLvKk]

oh my god this is so beautiful!!!! so beautiful!!!

[marcohorowitz8]

nice! not modern though, even by standards in 1883. Chopin preludes nos. 2, 14 and 16, written half a century before this work, are far more discordant, not to mention the almost atonal final movement from his second sonata.

[FlyingBlackAndWhite]

beautiful music

[EugenArbrakh]

Barbagallo?

[moneyjr1122]

pretty famous song here 

[demonninjaspider]

to me its sounds like: dom, Dum! , dom, du-Dum, dom, duh-tuh-du-dum!

[123eldest]

Deceptively hard to play =]

[Composerland]

It's a wonderful piece without any reference to any other composer.

[LittleArgerich]

chopin nocturne op 48 n.1...

[thphaca]

I love this piece. It was one of the first ones I favorited on YT. It makes me wonder if only those chords were even more agressive.

[ForgottenFlesh]

thank you for all of your posting, i learn a lot from them

[MultiFailBot]

Oh my god, I would die for that theme.

[lalagirl259]

i freakin LOVE this composer. <3333333

[StrmUndDrng]

u always post the best stuff

[Dectavius]

This is amazing. I love it.

[robbiethemann]

the 2nd modern suite is such a brilliant work. upload the rest of the set so it makes sense! ;)

[yuehchopin]

schöne Haupt-Melodie

[JCHBONNET]

Hi Hexameron. Excellent work and very nicely written ! Do you have McDowell's piano concertos ? In case you don't and in case nobody has already placed them on Youtube, I will try upload one of them.

[Jman0101]

sounds like liszt influenced MacDowell some.

[goobleglob]

It sounds a bit Tragic Chopin to my ears, but you may be right

[PriNathShow]

@goobleglob yea

[radioplug14]

He studied in Germany and was a piano virtuoso himself. He's got a touch of European composition with his own unique twist. I think there is something inherently American in his pieces. Less in his suites, but more in his sonatas. He's a very mature composer, especially compared to his awful composition teacher Joachim Raff.

[gee1996]

yes, greatest American composer.

[gee1996]

I thought they were friends? yes?

[radioplug14]

I think so? Haha :)

[moneyjr1122]

@Jman0101 will with this modern age and this such recognition n to the past composers it hared not to be influenced :P

[bartje11]

@Jman0101 MacDowell visited Liszt in Weimar and played his own Piano Concerto in A Minor, op. 15, for the maestro. On Liszt's recommendation, MacDowell's First Modern Suite, op. 10, was performed on 11 July 1882 at the Allgemeine deutsche Musikverein; Liszt also encouraged the prestigious Leipzig firm of Breitkopf & Härtel to publish the work.

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[teacherschoice147]

interesting work!!!