[net.music.classical] Warhorse Poll

densinge@stolaf.UUCP (Charles W. Densinger) (10/26/84)

Here's my list of warhorses:

1. Beethoven, Symphony #5
2. Mozart, Piano sonata in C major, k.545
3. Vivaldi, Four Seasons
4. The Ride of the Walkyries, Wagner (from Die Walkyrie)
5. Bach, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
6. Bizet's Carmen
7. Bach prelude #1 in C major (from Well-tempered Klavier)
8. Brahms, Piano Concerto #1
9. Debussy, Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun
10. Holst, The Planets


I'll be waiting for the results!


     -Chuck Densinger @ St. Olaf College
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robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) (10/29/84)

Just a few more warhorses:

Mozart: Eine Kleine Nacthmusik
Ravel: Bolero
Vivaldi: Spring concerto from the seasons.

Liszt's Les Preludes used to be a warhorse.  You could not
watch TV in the 1950's unless you were willing to hear it.

I would like to predict that by 1990, Bartok's concerto for
orchestra will be a warhorse.

I would like to include the Mozart sonatina that EVERYONE
studies who plays piano, but I think that probably anyone has
heard the second movement, or even all of the first.

	- Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
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greg@olivej.UUCP (Greg Paley) (11/02/84)

A few operatic excerpts that I think belong in the "warhorse"
category:

	(1) Puccini: La Boheme, Act II - "Musetta's Waltz"
	(2) Verdi: Aida, Act II - Grand March
	(3) Rossini: Barber of Seville, Act I - "Largo al factotum"
	(4) Verdi: Rigoletto, Act 4 - "La Donna e Mobile"
	(5) Bizet: Carmen, Act 1 - "Habanera"


There are others that, judging from old movies, seem to have been
warhorses of the past generation, but which have died off a bit:

	(1) Saint-Saens: Samson And Delilah - "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix"
	(2) Rossini: William Tell - Overture
	(3) Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 3 - "Liebestod"
	(4) Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Act 2 - "Un bel di"
	(5) Verdi: La Traviata, Act 1 - "Sempre Libera"

Of these, the only one I've gotten so sick of I wouldn't mind
never hearing it again is the Boheme excerpt.

	- Greg Paley