What song or piece of music best describes your personality?

What song or piece of music best describes your personality?

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  • Selections from Rachmaninoff Etudes-Tableaux - specifically Op. 39#8, or Op. 33#4. But others as well. And then find myself getting sucked into another one - all the while thinking, "...seriously, you want to work that hard again?!" Apparently.

    I can't stay away from Rachmaninoff, so there must be some strong affinity. And yes - beautiful Couperin!

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  • The song dest describes my personality is the Fréderic Chopin  Concert n. 1, played by the best pianist ever : Arthur Rubinstein

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  • Hi everybody. The piece of music that best describes my personality may be " any classical /romantic concerto or sonata" and some modern ones too...

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  • Symphony No. 1 by Brahms. 

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      • Gail Starr
      • Retired MBA
      • Gail_Starr
      • 1 yr ago
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      Alexander Weymann you pick the best pieces, Alex!

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    • Gail Starr thanks - I even had a little blurb written about why I picked this one but then deleted it because it sounded too grandiose and conflicted with my shy and self-effacing North German personality... 😉

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    • Alexander Weymann 😂

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      • Gail Starr
      • Retired MBA
      • Gail_Starr
      • 1 yr ago
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      Alexander Weymann On the inside I bet you are actually a combination of an Italian 5 star chef and an indie rocker, 😂.  Post the description anyway! 😊

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    • Gail Starr if that's my true inner self, it would be quite the mélange to be discovered and revealed ! 😄😂 O.K, fine, here's why I thought that Brahms' Op. 68 is the piece that best depicts me: complex, ambitious and expansive in character, but with a simple and tender core; brooding and struggling at the beginning of the journey, but ultimately at peace and deeply joyful. 🙂

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      • Gail Starr
      • Retired MBA
      • Gail_Starr
      • 1 yr ago
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      Alexander Weymann OMG!  This is simply the BEST description of human character I've ever read.  I see a worthy protagonist for your next novel.  Or symphony!

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  • "Beau Soir" for violin and piano by Debussy. I played this a couple of years ago on a program with a violinist. 

    The music flows along to the delicate rhythm and phrasing of the french poem it was based on by Paul Bourget, "Lorsque au soleil couchant les rivières sont roses, Et qu'un tiède frisson court sur les champs de blés..."

    It doesn't have the same feel in English.  At sunset, à breeze rustles through the field of wheat.

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  • My choice would be Robert Schumann's "Warum?", from the Phantasiestücke op. 12. Fauré's Barcarolle n. 1 contributes with some nice commentary, but the first one is very accurate LUL

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    • Kerstin
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    • 1 yr ago
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    For me it is Beethoven‘s ,Pathetique‘.

    Fast change of emotions- some tragic part goes over in an attacking part. And than this nice second movement. And the third movement- I love it so much - also ends with a bang. And underlying a bit of a beautiful sadness. I always come back to this piece. 😇

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  • The first to come to mind is Mozart’s Fantasy in D minor: capricious, unpredictable, abrupt mood shifts, sudden exuberant outbursts, with a hopeful ending. 

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    • Ronald
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    • Wendy
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    Chopin’s Raindrop Prelude. 

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  • The only music that truly represents me is MY music - my rudimentary improvisations that are direct from my soul. Anything else is not me or mine. 

    Not (m)any improvisers out there I imagine. Let’s hear yours - if you dare.
     

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    • Ken Radford Wrong! 😜

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  • I think that Liszt's transcription of Schumann's Widmung feels like a good reflection of my personality. At least half of the time. I'm a Gemini so the other half is likely on the opposite end of the spectrum. 😂 But, Widmung just brings me such joy when I hear it played or sung well, and I'd like to think that I'm a pretty joyous individual.

     

    https://youtu.be/aAuD0MgUYR8?si=w3AvDJklPPQE0BVJ

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    • Justo
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    • 6 mths ago
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    Gnosiennes, Erik Satie

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    • Pauline
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    Morning - Edvard Grieg

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