Mozart has time-traveled to your living room. He asks you about today's music.

I would show him Merzbow and tell him that it's what everyone listens to nowadays.

What do you play for him/take him to see?

― B'wana Beast, Friday, October 8, 2010 6:48 PM (3 days ago)

http://www.cluas.com/images/music/album/tapes-n-tapes-loon.jpg

― markers, Friday, October 8, 2010 6:51 PM (3 days ago)

Thread peaked here IMO ^^

I think the one detail we are grossly overlooking is whether Mozart would be nude on arrival

They're all too busy imagining Geir naked ready to meet him.

Hongrost Geiradise

mozart wasn't really trying to be "complex"

Along with Haydn, he was considerably more musically complex than most of the composers of his time. Only in a completely different way compared to Beethovens polyphonic complexity.

(Said Beethoven, meant Bach)

can you name a few mozart comtemporaries, other than haydn?

can you name a few mozart comtemporaries, other than haydn?

Many of them were named Bach. Bach's sons, that is. They were a lot more famous in the 18th century than Mozart, and also more famous than their dad (whose undeniably genius music was probably discovered by the aftertime because of his famous sons)

There were also people like Scarlatti and Hummel. Beethoven was comtemporary with Haydn, but not really with Mozart.

I think we know what Brahms would have said
http://img.youtube.com/vi/oX7t31i6HCw/0.jpg

Brahms actually seemed to foresee the downfall of "classical" music after the turn of the century, and it would have been better if they had listened more to him.

But he was a conservative man who probably wouldn't have liked the addition of guitars, bass, drums and screaming vocals to music. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5ZcMh-H870

don't play anything for him, get him to play for me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2a3nbTrO_c

There were also people like Scarlatti and Hummel. Beethoven was comtemporary with Haydn, but not really with Mozart.

Thank you, Geir, for confirming that you live in a completely different universe from the rest of us.

Ah, good to know Mozart is your "favourite classical composer", Geir. What do you think of the string quintets, k515 and k516? Or the "Prague" symphony K504? Or the great Piano sonata in C min k475 (and the accompanying Fantasia in C min k457)? What's your favourite of the Da Ponte operas?
You also didn't tell me how much you liked the "Dissonance" quartet k465. Or is it that you're more of a fan of the quartets k458 or k464? Do you think the earlier operas such as Luico Silla, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Il re pastore and Zaide are worth listening to?

String quartets are for nerds with special interest for classical music. I prefer Mozart's later symphonies and piano concertos.

haha oh man

:P

elephant trap, feathers everywhere

why are you all being so cruel to geir?

I would show him Merzbow and tell him that it's what everyone listens to nowadays.

best answer so far imo.

Yeah no kidding, I mean sure he's off-base waaaayy more often than he's OTM, but you guys are being 300% bigger dicks than usual.

xp re: Geir

String quartets are for nerds with special interest for classical music

hahaha wait this is a joke right

cruelty is for nerds with special interest in geir. i prefer posting ferneyhough youtube clips. (feel the complexity! harpsichords!)

http://thebigfoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Mozart-mola.jpg

Eh, fuck this weak shit.

geirs first post on this thread is classic very-much-in-character but its overshadowing louiss which is just as funny

oh wow psyopus is a real band not just a made up stand in name for the kind of band that louis likes

Lol psyopus is mega dope read yr decibel

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200/drp100/p181/p18110gaq9i.jpghttp://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2008/10/21/Gang276.jpg
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/gallery/2007/01/10/morrissey460.jpghttp://wiredforbooks.org/images/ArtGarfunkel.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ZetW6bQ7Q

Nepomuk is a great name

Yeah no kidding, I mean sure he's off-base waaaayy more often than he's OTM, but you guys are being 300% bigger dicks than usual.

because when Geir fronts like he actually knows anything about classical music it becomes time to haul out the tranq darts. anybody for whom the dawn of modernism is the end of classical music buys himself a one-way ticket to STFU-land.

Okay I admit I'm mostly posting this because of the WTF visual that the uploader chose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuO1gPmVDGI

Yes, Nepomuk is a great name. And aerosmith remains OTM...

anyway that's why I'm being an even bigger dick than I usually am, because Geir flaunting his ignorance as though it were wisdom on this subject is offensive to me, especially when he tries to imagine that the composers he pretends to understand would share his myopia. Mozart was a visionary; he looked forward as far as he could see; everything Geir loathes in music -- progress, risk, spontaneity -- Mozart treasured & exemplified. Anybody who tries to posit Mozart as some guardian of any "it was better when the rules were in place" ideology gets what he deserves imo.

hey looks like u need this: http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sfhorror/eyeroll.gifhttp://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sfhorror/eyeroll.gif

crüt OTM

clearly Geir must listen to every Mozart composition before giving him praise

There were also people like Scarlatti and Hummel. Beethoven was comtemporary with Haydn, but not really with Mozart.

Domenico Scarlatti, 1685-1757 (exact contemporary of J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Franz Josef Haydn, 1732-1809
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791
Ludwig Van Beethoven, 1770-1827
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, 1778-1837

Thank you, Geir, for confirming that you live in a completely different universe from the rest of us.

― Waldstein Sinatra (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, October 11, 2010 4:54 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

to be fair, Mozart wz dead when Beethoven was 21; Hayden would go on to live for at least two more decades. I don't know what Beethoven had accomplished by 1791, but I can't really imagine he had formed any of his most famous compositions.

Let's just suppose that he's dressed, speaks English (could he? -probably), and his knowledge of his future won't mess up history. It was sort of beside the point of the thread, but the most logical answer so far has been to whisk him to a doctor.
Should I have added that he can only stay for several hours? Seems like that would make it more interesting.

Yeah no kidding, I mean sure he's off-base waaaayy more often than he's OTM, but you guys are being 300% bigger dicks than usual.

― i'm just saying let ilxor say something nice to me ffs (ilxor), Monday, October 11, 2010 5:13 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock

clearly Geir must listen to every Mozart composition before giving him praise

― flockapella (crüt)

How about just some of them. He said he liked his 'later symphonies', yet didn't seem to recognise the symphony no 38, which considering Mozart wrote 41 is..pretty late. He said string quartets were for nerds, but didn't comment on the piano sonatas or operas or string quintets I mentioned. Or the hundreds of other works that don't come under the purview of 'late piano concertos and symphonies'.
Mozart is his "favourite classical composer" and yet by this computation he likes barely a handful of works, like maybe half a dozen. That's like saying the Beatles are your favourite band but you only like the second half of their last album.

It's pretty amusing.

would love to play him rhythm & sound, some autechre too

geir likes the beatles and there are more than plenty of beatles tracks geir doesn't like

K that's a good point. I have no problem with Geir giving Mozart praise btw, it's just that he's saying 'Mozart is like this' and 'his music is like this', without really knowing anything about either. aerosmith did a good job of correcting him, I'm just showing that Geir doesn't actually like Mozart, on the whole.

And of course the Beatles are NOT Geir's favourite band..Genesis is, so the analogy would be that he liked one minute of one song. That would be a similar ratio of liking to actual compositional output. For your favourite thing.

The best works of Genesis are actually better than anything Mozart or Brahms ever did.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, March 7, 2003 6:41 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Mozart is my favourite classical composer.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, October 11, 2010 3:46 PM

You guys, Mozart has just time-traveled to your living room and all you can do is dig up Geir posts and feed his trolling?