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Great composers: how to listen to the classics - course 9920 rub. from Synchronization, training, Date: November 29, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 01, 2023
Classical music is very beautiful. And it’s also very difficult: the terms and theory make your head spin
But behind the scary terms there are clear principles: if you understand them, classical music will become closer, and familiar melodies will play in a new way
During the course we will get acquainted with the music of 10 great composers and reveal the secrets of their mastery.
After our course, classical music will become closer to you: you will be able to go to the Philharmonic with your head held high and understand even those works that we did not talk about.
Baroque: Bach and Vivaldi
How composers learned to control our moods
The Baroque Age: Fugue, Opera and Affect Theory
Video, 25 minutes
Vivaldi
The Priest Who Wrote Perfect Baroque Pop Music
Video, 20 minutes
The life of Vivaldi: 500 concerts, the wrath of the archbishop and oblivion
Video, 20 minutes
Opera arias: ostinato rhythm and strong emotions
Cycle “Seasons”: tremolo and sounds of nature
Video, 20 minutes
Bach
A master of polyphony and a composer who was ahead of his time
Video, 20 minutes
Bach's Life: Organ, Blindness and Posthumous Fame
Video, 20 minutes
Preludes and Fugues: Mathematical Precision and Counterpoint
Chorale preludes and the St. Matthew Passion: the emotional tension of sacred music
Video, 15 minutes
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, “Goldberg Variations” and “Coffee Cantata”: music for entertainment and concert as a competition
Video, 15 minutes
Classicism: Mozart and Beethoven
How composers brought order to music
Video, 20 minutes
The era of classicism: harmony, sonata and symphony orchestra
Mozart
The child prodigy who created perfect harmony
Video, 20 minutes
Mozart's life: children's tours, the path of a free artist and mysterious death
Video, 25 minutes
“Little Night Serenade” and Symphony No. 40: beauty and contrast of music
“Turkish Rondo” and Concerto No. 23 for piano and orchestra: the formula for a piano hit from Mozart
Video, 15 minutes
“The Marriage of Figaro” and “Don Giovanni”: musical dramaturgy of the opera
Video, 15 minutes
Beethoven
The rebel who paved the way for romantics
Video, 15 minutes
Beethoven's Life: Rebellion, Success and Hearing Loss
Video, 20 minutes
“Pathétique” and “Moonlight” sonatas: emotions and breaking the rules
Symphonies No. 3 and No. 5: Beethoven's signature recipe for monumental music
Video, 20 minutes
Symphony No. 9: avant-garde elements and action scene
Video, 20 minutes
Romanticism: Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Wagner
How composers learned to feel
Video, 20 minutes
Romanticism: the cult of feelings, folklore and mood swings
Chopin
Polish exile who revolutionized music genres
Video, 15 minutes
Chopin's life: rebellion, unhappy love and conquered Paris
Video, 20 minutes
“Revolutionary Etude” and Prelude in C minor: new life of small genres
Mazurka in A minor and Polonaise “Heroic”: how Polish dances conquered the world
Video, 20 minutes
Ballad No. 1 and Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra: an epic without words and the concert formula from Chopin
Video, 20 minutes
Wagner
The eternal debtor who forever turned opera into cinema and killed classical harmony
Video, 20 minutes
Wagner's life: debts, anti-Semitism and revolution in opera
Video, 20 minutes
Opera "Das Rheingold": leitmotifs and epic music
Opera "Tristan and Isolde": destruction of classical harmony
Video, 15 minutes
Chaikovsky
The first Russian composer to conquer the West
Video, 15 minutes
Tchaikovsky's life: anxieties, love dramas and success in the West
Video, 20 minutes
The operas “Eugene Onegin” and “The Queen of Spades”: psychologism and the “mystery of the three cards”
"Winter Dreams", Piano Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 6: program orchestral music by Tchaikovsky
Video, 20 minutes
Ballets “Swan Lake” and “Nutcracker”: philosophical subtext of musical theater
Video, 20 minutes
20th century: Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Shostakovich
How composers found a new musical language
Video, 15 minutes
20th century: the end of harmony, dodecaphony and minimalism
Rachmaninov
The last romantic of the 20th century
Video, 20 minutes
Rachmaninoff's life: lost estate, life-saving hypnosis and emigration
Video, 25 minutes
Prelude No. 12 and Etude-Painting in E-flat major: bells and a new genre
“Lilac” and Vocalise: sensual vocal music
Video, 15 minutes
“All-Night Vigil”: a balance between innovation and tradition
Video, 20 minutes
Third piano concerto, “Symphonic Dances”: monothematicism and elusive melody
Video, 20 minutes
Prokofiev
The eternal rebel who shocked the whole world
Video, 20 minutes
Prokofiev's life: outrageousness, work with Eisenstein and repression
Video, 25 minutes
“Classical Symphony”, Concerto No. 3 for piano and orchestra and Symphony No. 7: football match, constructivism and neoclassicism
“Peter and the Wolf” and “Alexander Nevsky”: music for cinema and animation
Video, 15 minutes
Ballets "Leap of Steel" and "Romeo and Juliet": the rhythm of the factory and film editing in musical theater
Video, 20 minutes
Shostakovich
The composer who turned music into a weapon
Video, 15 minutes
The life of Shostakovich: musical experiments, persecution and defense of Leningrad
Video, 20 minutes
Preludes and Fugues: Baroque in the 20th century
String Quartet No. 8: monogram motif and Shostakovich’s experiences
Video, 20 minutes
Symphony No. 7: breaking the rules and the theme of invasion
Video, 20 minutes
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