Lyapunov - Transcendental Etude No. 6 "Storm"

Sixth study subtitled "Storm" from the Transcendental Etudes Op. 11 (1905)

Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924) belongs to the group of pre-revolutionary Balakirev disciples and conservative Russian composers. Like Medtner and Glazunov, Lyapunov rejected the new aesthetics of Scriabin, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky, preferring the models and sound world of late Romanticism. Lyapunov attended the Moscow Conservatory, studying piano with Karl Klindworth, an eminent pupil of Liszt, and composition with the renowned Taneyev. After graduation, Lyapunov became a student of Balakirev and taught at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The 1917 October Revolution brought changes that Lyapunov would not accept and, like so many other Russian composers and musicians, he fled to France in 1923. A year later he died of a heart attack. In the late 19th-century, critics and composers praised Lyapunov as a first-rate composer of piano music comparable to Balakirev. Indeed, Lyapunov was given the fanciful appellation of "Black Balakirev" due to the severity and expressive power of his works.

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• liszt
• balakirev
• medtner
• rachmaninov

[iamthebirdfearme]

@MrRrrrvvvv Death metal often veers into that awful territory, but it doesn't have to.

And metal in general DEFINITELY does not have to. Bands like Animals As Leaders and Periphery make some of the most complex music I've heard outside of classical music, and it's not just complex for the sake of being so. But bands like that don't get very popular- the cheesy evil stuff does.

Anyway, this is an incredible piece. I know someone who is going to learn it and I'm so excited for her

[chutdigadut]

can't for a top comment to relate to the music again and not metal!

[FlyingBlackAndWhite]

Liszt on EMO drugs

[ElTGV]

Amazing pianistic skills.

[iamthebirdfearme]

@omegaowa True!

[OmegaOwA]

@iamthebirdfearme Dream Theater. That is all.

:P.

[iamthebirdfearme]

@Sphereal I'm sorry, what?

[Sphereal]

@iamthebirdfearme "Bands like Animals As Leaders and Periphery make some of the most complex music I've heard outside of classical music, " lol at you, sir. Stop listening your own classical music.

[iamthebirdfearme]

@iamthebirdfearme To me, by saying AAL's music is a series of interesting rhythms layered over one another you're saying their music is by definition complex.

And all beatboxers ever? That's a big generalization. I'm being picky, yes. :)

[iamthebirdfearme]

@omgtkseth I have to agree with you that some of their songs are like that, I disagree that those songs are representative of their body of work. Anyway, something is complex if it is composed of multiple elements isn't it? So rhythm can be complex- polyrhythms, shifting and compound meters, etc. A percussion piece may be more complex once you add pitch (playing Workers Union on drums versus piano), but it is also complex without it. Does that make sense?

[omgtkseth]

@iamthebirdfearme No, I dont think the Animals As Leaders are complex. They might adorn up their rhythm but their tonal language is the most simplistic and uncreative thing I have heard. Sure, maybe you could point to minimalism or something like that. Overall, they can play a chord or a 3 note figure over and over for minutes only because they layer several interesting rhythms. Rhythm without tonal language is like beatbox, and beatboxers arent very good writers, poets, singers...

[matteoboscolotube]

the complexity, the aestethic, the filosophy, the innovations behind great classics are not comparable to any modern band/artist

anyway every music has his scope