#german music.

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silver coral
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Maybe you heard weird stuff?

warm spruce
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Well, what genre do you want to listen to? Classical? Medieval? Popmusic? Electro? Swing? Rock? What is your aesthetic/taste? With or without text?

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Ah, man. My PC crashed, and now I have to type everything again -.-

warm spruce
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From every single genre, I know most about the baroque, (Viennese) classical and Romantic eras (totalling to the time from about 1600 to about 1890ish). I'll name a few well-known composers and some notable pieces, but you should be able to find more quite easily (this is subjective, mostly; also I'm doing this from the top of my head, so I might miss a few).

  • Johann Sebastian Bach (Baroque). Recommended pieces: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, The Badinerie, The Small Fugue, The Brandenburgian Concerts, The Musical Offering, The Art of the Fugue
    Other notable pieces: The Well-Tempered Piano, The Christmas Oratory
  • Georg Friedrich Händel (Baroque; born in Germany, later moved to England). Recommended pieces: The Messiah (especially the Dixit Dominus and the Hallelujah Choir)
    Other notable pieces: The Water Music, The Fireworks-Music
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Viennese Classic; actually was named Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart as a fun fact). Recommended pieces: The 25 Symphony, the 40th Symphony, One Little Night Music
    Other notable pieces: The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, The Jupiter (41st?) Symphony
  • Ludwig van Beethoven (Viennese Classic). Recommended pieces: The 5th symphony, the 9th symphony, Rage Over a Lost Penny, the Pathetique, the Appassionata, the Waldstein Sonata
    Other notable pieces: The odd-numbered symphonies in general

If you like Walther von der Vogelweide, you might be interested in Neidhard von Reuental, who lived at about the same time. I personally like his "Meie din liechter schin".

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Bach did his works in Germany, but for the "mass", he used latin text.

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I meant the "Mass in B minor" you asked about.

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Nice to hear that you like it :D

There's a lot more where that came from. I listed four of the most renown composers, but there were a lot more composers and even those four had a lot more pieces. The list of Bach's total work along is over 1000 pieces long.

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That was the name of the piece I didn't remember. Thanks ^^

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Yes, it's quite nice ^^

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I had a few pieces I couldn't remember the name of. There was one for Mozart, too.

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That was the whole idea. He was employed as a court-composer for the Archbishop of Salzburg, among others.

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Yes. Theophilus is the Greek name for the German "Gottlieb", the French version of which is "Amadée", which somehow got warped to "Amadeus".

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Sorry, but I don't understand what you're asking about. Could you please rephrase your question?

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Actually, the list is over 1000 "operes", the plural of the Latin word "opus" (at least I think this is the correct plural, I might be mistaken here), which means "work". One "work"/"opus" might or might not consist of multiple connected songs/song-equivalents. "Piece" (German: "Stück"/"Musikstück") is more of a catch-all-term.

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How the parts of a larger opus are called depends on the type of work.

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There's "movement" (German: "Satz"), but also "etude" (German: "Etüde") and some others as names of such parts.

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I'm not too much of an expert on Bach's Masses. If you like it and there's a performance nearby, why not?

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Ah, yes, Johannes Brahms. He's one of the more well-known composers I've left out. He has quite a few interesting pieces as well. The Hungarian Dance No. 5 is quite good, but I prefer some of his Piano pieces, for example opus 34 and opus 60 (I had to look those numbers up D: )

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Ah, yes, another renown work of Mozart I'd completely forgotten about. What a shame - I can even play it D:
But I don't know the exact circumstances this was written, so I can't tell you that. It's possible.

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I don't know the piece.

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Or do you mean dance of the knights by Prokofiev?

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I did include it. If you translate it it's literally "a little night music", which is in the list.

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I think he wasn't German. Wasn't he Russian or Polish or something like this?

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Not that deep, actually. I like the style, have listened to a lot f music over the years and play classical music on piano. But I'm nowhere in even the wider vicinity of the level of a professional.

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As I said, I did the list from the top of my head. But yes, I probably should have included that one as well.

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Just a normal piano. Non-electronic. Could need some tuning, though :D

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Yes, I'll be off as well. And I'm glad to see you found what you were looking for ^^

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Good night

acoustic jolt
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Im not sure what youve listened to, I think German music is great

prime quiver
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I agree! The german language just isnt made to suit modern music - maybe its great for Volksmusik.

raw geyser
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Depends on what genres you're into

minor kernel
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I listen to a lot of German nightcore tbh

minor kernel
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I don't want to be judged by my Internet peers

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But I'll do it for you

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I'll do it when I'm on pc

crude yoke
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187 straßenbande is good

acoustic jolt
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I just think in general the german language sounds good when sung

crude yoke
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nah wtf how is that racist XD

warm spruce
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One problem with modern German songs is that for a large number of them, the lyrics are in English, so it's really not obvious they're German at all.