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insovietme

Writer's Block: Listen to This

Jul 05, 2009 21:27

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klangedermusik July 6 2009, 02:01:54 UTC

I've never heard of it. I must not have been written yet in my time... Tell me, what does it sound like?

insovietme July 6 2009, 02:06:50 UTC

The Allegretto movement is the best part, da? And it sounds like a march, repeating over and over, with flourishes at a time. There is quiet in places, and it starts with a larger theme. It is very much sounding like trumpets and strings and flutes every now and again.

klangedermusik July 6 2009, 02:10:24 UTC

It sounds magnificent... I can't wait for Shostakovich to finish writing it so I can actually hear it for myself. I assume it was inspired by Ludwig's betrayal?

insovietme July 6 2009, 07:11:51 UTC

Ah, you'd have to get to Moscow for that, da?

That is what they say. They say he began writing it the day Germany invaded. So it is all about a knife to the back.

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uebersoldat July 6 2009, 03:43:19 UTC

Wunderbar. I'm not sure we'd have the same taste in music, Ivan.

insovietme July 6 2009, 07:12:22 UTC

Nyet. Mine is good.

uebersoldat July 6 2009, 07:19:53 UTC

For putting men to sleep, perhaps.

insovietme July 6 2009, 07:26:07 UTC

Ah, is that so? What have you produced in the last five years, besides rockets and silence?

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timey_wimey July 6 2009, 09:32:15 UTC

Symphony No. 7 is nice, I'll admit... well, it's stirring at least. But I always preferred his first symphony in F minor.

insovietme July 6 2009, 09:34:49 UTC

Oh! Da, I am very, very fond of that one, as well! He was so young when he composed it, and so skilled already. He is very much one of my newest favorites.

timey_wimey July 6 2009, 09:44:27 UTC

That seems to be a trend with great composers, doesn't it? Being young and brilliant. I would say that he was one of my newest favourites as well, but as I'm old and a time traveller and he's actually one of my oldest, more or less, that might be lying a bit.

insovietme July 6 2009, 09:46:49 UTC

Oh, yes, this is very true. It seems as if genius strikes so early with them, and we are all left wondering as to the hows.

Just a little bit, but the intent is there. Music lasts longer than the moment it was written, da? It is...timeless, in a fashion.

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