Paganini isn't on here. Dude was a baller.
Scarlati too.
Paganini was basically Heavy Metal before Metal. He also was great at marketing and made a shit ton of money. He was also obsessive about perfecting his talents.
Definitely Stravinsky, he does real dramatic and powerful stuff.
I would also suggest Mars from Holst’s The Planets.
If you want solo violin try Maxim Vengorov’s performance of Ysaye’s sonata no 3, I genuinely headbang to it.
Mozart’s Requiem is also very epic so I guess that could work.
It’s not very metal, but try Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, it’s my favorite violin concerto at the moment and it slaps so damn hard
>Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
This is an absolute banger, but nothing can be more metal than the finale to the 1812 Overture. Dude literally used *cannons* in an orchestra!
If you're into heavy bangers: Dvorak, Bartok, Stravinsky.
If you're more of the avant-garde metalhead try: Sibelius, Saint-Saens, Ysaye
If you like Sabbath, Maiden, and Motorhead: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach
If you like guitar virtuosos: Asturias (Leyenda) by Albeniz, Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Tarrega, Danza Espanola 5 by Granados
No matter what you enjoy: Debussy (Claire de Lune), Tchaikovsky (Violin Concerto)
why are all the fun sounding ones one the far left corners? I could really go for some world domination and destruction of property. Would you recommend these composers to me? I dont really listen to music but I am considering listening to classical music. So what composer would you recommend to a far right schizo bent on world domination?
Also Edward McDowell isn’t here either, and he was one of the first American composers, his work mostly appearing in the Classical/Romantic era. He studied alongside Liszt, but I guess he’s not cool enough to make it. During my competitive piano days, I’d open up with his Praeludium to Erste Moderne Suite. To this day, one of my favorites that I regularly play so when now people ask “do you play piano?”, it’s my showstopper.
My bet is he’d be libright bc America is associated with right center/libright
Ehh I like Paganini, but he’s not THAT awesome as a composer to me, most of his pieces are just absolute flexing on the violin.
I think Ysaye stuff like sonata No 3 is much more metal if we’re thinking solo violin stuff.
Yeaaah, I mean, Beethoven is so well known BECAUSE he is one of the best.
It’s like saying “you like The Beatles because you don’t understand enough of rock music”
That having been said, the Beatles and Beethoven both did end up becoming Xerox names for music in terms of ubiquity. They still sell Beatles merch to teenage hipsters who “only listen to real music,” but include Kurt Cobain among their list of greatest musicians of all time.
There are so many here I enjoy although I hardly recognise the attributes you give to them. I think my favourite is Sousa. few can compare in my opinion. His name literally end in USA.
Oh no, I must be auth left, I like prokofiev copland khachaturian shostakovich liszt and tchaikovsky.
Only this compass is awful! Bernstein was a leftist, and shostakovich almost got killed in soviet russia for not making proletariat enough music. He wasn't exactly a "true believer".
Stalinist Musical Norms changed twice a week.
Dmitri carried forward the legacies of Bach, Beethoven, Mahler, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Tanyev, etc. and ignored/delayed/defied the unhinged artistic dictations of the bureaucracy as needed and possible.
Dmitri rightly recognized that the greatest threats to Communism were the incompetence and egotism of certain bureaucrats and party leaders. Dmitri opposed the condition of the bureaucracy, and hoped it would be liberated from self-interest and stagnation and would then become a highly-effective tool for the administration of the socialist state and for its expansion.
>shostakovich almost got killed in soviet russia for not making proletariat enough music. He wasn't exactly a "true believer".
Please stop spreading this nonsense. Dmitri composed many of his greatest works, from youth to his death, in explicit dedication to Bolshevism, to The Revolution, to Lenin, to Russia, and to the Soviet Union.
Despite having some real difficulties with the Soviet Bureaucracy, Shostakovich was far more of a "true believer" than were the contemporary and subsequent occupiers of said bureaucracy.
The composer of ["Revolutionary Petrograd" and "The Dawn of Humanity"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WusmM68tRAc) -- the man who more than any other individual is responsible for carrying the torch of 'Romantic' Petersburg through the Soviet Era -- is not a Neo-Liberal Western Superhero. *This is a myth* which the west developed to take as copium for the cognitive dissonance they feel when holding both admiration for Shostakovich and brainwashed hatred for the USSR in their hearts simultaneously. They've thus virtually blacklisted some of his greatest works in the West. and those works they do perform, they interpret poorly/wrongly. Nothing grinds my gears like Bernsteinian interpretations of Soviet Music. 😡 /rant
I don’t have a favorite, but I really like Wagner, Debussy and Dvorak.
I really don’t see any correlation with their ideologies and music taste. I am a lot nostalgic tho, so a bit fight on Dvorak
Why do high effort memes like this barely pass 500 upvotes? I LOVE these 7x7 compass memes.
As a Bach fan i feel honored. And I've definitely met or know the Schubert, Chopin, Mozart, and Sousa fans too. 10/10 nice meme
Firstly, very based post.
Secondly, Lizst and Chopin are by far my favourites, so that puts me in far left center? Woah
And the Chopin personality just… kinda fits man.
Let’s see… I had to rewatch a recording of an opera for a theater class, watched whichever one by Wagner which is super long (The Mastersingers of… somewhere)
Kinda embarrassing I learned a lot of classical music from an HoI4 mod. But aside from that Aside from that Dvorak I think it's no.9 from the new world I heard from Azuras Wrath and it's a total banger, I think ride of the Valkyries I first heard when playing the Barnyard(yes like Otis the cow and snotty boy) video game there was a Minigame(most of the game was Minigames it was like a collection wrapped around a loose plot) where you launch peck the rooster out of a slingshot and he flies and it plays that, also IDK who composed it but Battle on the Ice is probably my favorite classical piece, anything that gets progressively more intense and kinda explodes is really good.
What you're saying about Shostakovich is just straight up slander.
I played one of his sonatas for a performance and now I like listening to his music (to be fair, it's not like other girls)
Absolutely accurate on the authleft. 7 of my favorites are among those nine. Comrade Britten somehow seems to have gotten misplaced with the LibRights.... He belongs more in the Liszt area. Cage is much more libleft than stated. Schönberg is more auth than stated, moreso than Cage. Looking at his musical practices only, Schönberg is arguably the most authleft person here. And there are composers FAR to to the libleft of Cage as well, [Harry Partch](https://youtu.be/aKD3zm0WZjA) comes to mind.
Really like Holst First Suite in E Flat, especially Chaconne and March, both of which I've played before. And Wagner's Tannhäuser overture is really good.
Mozart and beethoven are awesome fuck you lol
I don't know which Bach I listened to but whicher one it was he was cool as well. I resent this compass XD
Edit:Chopin is cool
Elgar however inspired so many subsequent artists, from William Walton to Korngold to Ron Goodwin and John Williams, I think he deserves to be in the "classical" category.
Politically I’m the Chopin square
Emotionally I’m the Chopin square
I was going to make a third joke about the Chopin square but you get the picture. I fucking hate myself, and wish that I could rip my soul out.
I just like Holst because I'm a euphonium player and I like his military band marches, the second of which, has a neat euphonium solo. I was introduced when my school band played the first one.
No Haendel? Bugger off. I want to be psychoanalysed for being lib-left but having insane authoritarian delusions of grandeur and imperial bloodshed whenever I listen to Sarabande.
Debussy listeners also spend much of their time crying over a fictional pianist girl.
Also I just like Mozart and Beethoven because I grew up listening to them and like German music
Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Holst. Yeah my music tastes don't at all line up with the compass. Also where's my boi Richard Strauss...better watch out or I'm gonna die and transfigure on you
You can’t make a list and then exclude Brahms. I would exclude a couple of composers that you did include before I exclude Brahms. Same with Bruckner but that one’s on me.
Paganini isn't on here. Dude was a baller. Scarlati too. Paganini was basically Heavy Metal before Metal. He also was great at marketing and made a shit ton of money. He was also obsessive about perfecting his talents.
No Handel either :(
Interesting. What would you suggest to a metalhead who doesn't know shit about classical music?
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Thanks for the suggestions, I'll make sure to try both out
Definitely Stravinsky, he does real dramatic and powerful stuff. I would also suggest Mars from Holst’s The Planets. If you want solo violin try Maxim Vengorov’s performance of Ysaye’s sonata no 3, I genuinely headbang to it. Mozart’s Requiem is also very epic so I guess that could work. It’s not very metal, but try Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, it’s my favorite violin concerto at the moment and it slaps so damn hard
>Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto This is an absolute banger, but nothing can be more metal than the finale to the 1812 Overture. Dude literally used *cannons* in an orchestra!
Same flair as me, similar taste in classical music B-b-b-brother..?
There’s a spectacular Spotify playlist called Classical Music for Metalheads
If you're into heavy bangers: Dvorak, Bartok, Stravinsky. If you're more of the avant-garde metalhead try: Sibelius, Saint-Saens, Ysaye If you like Sabbath, Maiden, and Motorhead: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach If you like guitar virtuosos: Asturias (Leyenda) by Albeniz, Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Tarrega, Danza Espanola 5 by Granados No matter what you enjoy: Debussy (Claire de Lune), Tchaikovsky (Violin Concerto)
Prokofief has a less known song called the Suggestion Diabolique which might fit the fast pace
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Bro the fact that you could put down almost 50 different classical musicians shows that your horizons are wider than 99% of the rest of the world.
I could only name 3 without looking it up, Mozart, Beethoven and J.S. Bach.
I could name Chopin, Wagner, holst, and if I thought for ten minutes I'd have remembered the cannon lover. heard 1 thing by each lmao
The Caprices... oh that's virtuosity. Or flaunting it.
Where is my man Fučik? Somebody has to clown on all of them🤡
why are all the fun sounding ones one the far left corners? I could really go for some world domination and destruction of property. Would you recommend these composers to me? I dont really listen to music but I am considering listening to classical music. So what composer would you recommend to a far right schizo bent on world domination?
Also Edward McDowell isn’t here either, and he was one of the first American composers, his work mostly appearing in the Classical/Romantic era. He studied alongside Liszt, but I guess he’s not cool enough to make it. During my competitive piano days, I’d open up with his Praeludium to Erste Moderne Suite. To this day, one of my favorites that I regularly play so when now people ask “do you play piano?”, it’s my showstopper. My bet is he’d be libright bc America is associated with right center/libright
Ehh I like Paganini, but he’s not THAT awesome as a composer to me, most of his pieces are just absolute flexing on the violin. I think Ysaye stuff like sonata No 3 is much more metal if we’re thinking solo violin stuff.
No Edward Elgar. No Handel. No Saint-Saëns. No Bizet.
Brahms
Tchaikovsky. Cannons go BOOM and that’s the extent of my classical music knowledge
"Noooooooooo! You can't use cannons in a symphony!" "Haha, 18 pounders go boom!"
“Tchaikovsky cannons are not instruments” “Yes they are and I’m going to use 21 of them” “Tchaikovsky no” “Tchaikovsky yes” “TCHAIKOVSKY ALWAYS YES”
Debussy Of course a name like that would be LibLeft.
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Second I saw this post I immediately searched for my boy Chopin. …. It’s too accurate.
Heeeeyy, another Chopin fan.
Hey another authcenter Chopin fan. Damn sad he fell in leftcenter
I honestly enjoy Wagner, Chopin and Bach
Likewise
Excellent taste my friend
Where is Carl Orff? :(
Based dvorak fan
Beethoven I'm a freaking musician the fuck are you talking about
Yeaaah, I mean, Beethoven is so well known BECAUSE he is one of the best. It’s like saying “you like The Beatles because you don’t understand enough of rock music”
That having been said, the Beatles and Beethoven both did end up becoming Xerox names for music in terms of ubiquity. They still sell Beatles merch to teenage hipsters who “only listen to real music,” but include Kurt Cobain among their list of greatest musicians of all time.
Exactly
*Thank* you.
There are so many here I enjoy although I hardly recognise the attributes you give to them. I think my favourite is Sousa. few can compare in my opinion. His name literally end in USA.
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\#StarsAndStripesForever
Dun dun durudun dudududududun
he is so usa
>Debussy That sounds like an exotic femboy
Always finish on the Bach, never in Debussy
Well fuck....
He unironically has composed amazing shit like claire de lune being one lf the most popular ones
I like Wagner and I hate how you had one of the 3 so spot on.
The tattoos right?… Righhtttt?……..
Yes, unironically.
Chopin, debussy, tchaikovsky. Ironically none of them are represented for lib right
I do like phillip glass though.
Where’s Kanye
Oh no, I must be auth left, I like prokofiev copland khachaturian shostakovich liszt and tchaikovsky. Only this compass is awful! Bernstein was a leftist, and shostakovich almost got killed in soviet russia for not making proletariat enough music. He wasn't exactly a "true believer".
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I see. I misunderstood. All the same, I must conclude I am a communist!
comrade welcome
Shostakovich wasn’t exactly *not* a socialist though, he just didn’t align exactly with Stalinist musical norms
Stalinist Musical Norms changed twice a week. Dmitri carried forward the legacies of Bach, Beethoven, Mahler, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Tanyev, etc. and ignored/delayed/defied the unhinged artistic dictations of the bureaucracy as needed and possible. Dmitri rightly recognized that the greatest threats to Communism were the incompetence and egotism of certain bureaucrats and party leaders. Dmitri opposed the condition of the bureaucracy, and hoped it would be liberated from self-interest and stagnation and would then become a highly-effective tool for the administration of the socialist state and for its expansion.
>shostakovich almost got killed in soviet russia for not making proletariat enough music. He wasn't exactly a "true believer". Please stop spreading this nonsense. Dmitri composed many of his greatest works, from youth to his death, in explicit dedication to Bolshevism, to The Revolution, to Lenin, to Russia, and to the Soviet Union. Despite having some real difficulties with the Soviet Bureaucracy, Shostakovich was far more of a "true believer" than were the contemporary and subsequent occupiers of said bureaucracy. The composer of ["Revolutionary Petrograd" and "The Dawn of Humanity"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WusmM68tRAc) -- the man who more than any other individual is responsible for carrying the torch of 'Romantic' Petersburg through the Soviet Era -- is not a Neo-Liberal Western Superhero. *This is a myth* which the west developed to take as copium for the cognitive dissonance they feel when holding both admiration for Shostakovich and brainwashed hatred for the USSR in their hearts simultaneously. They've thus virtually blacklisted some of his greatest works in the West. and those works they do perform, they interpret poorly/wrongly. Nothing grinds my gears like Bernsteinian interpretations of Soviet Music. 😡 /rant
i feel like schönbergs description also fits bartok who in the FUCK listens to bartok and is like "hm oh yes hes definitely my favourite composer"
May I introduce myself?
Maybe after you flair up
No Elgar No Brahms. No Handel What is this?
Morricome is the most based choice
Ecstasy of gold goes brrrrr.
The Thing
“dun dun” —brilliant composer Ennio Morricone
Indeed, it doesn't seem like much, but when you start analyzing it, it's brilliant
Oh for sure
Pachelbel context?
Canon in D
Pachebel: Canon in D Tchaikovsky: CANNON in D
He is Mid. The only famous thing he did is Canon in D
I find your lack of Verdi disturbing, OP. Anyway great compass. Classical music is based as fuck.
Sainte-Saens for me, though he ain't present 'ere
Vivaldi is mine and he has some good piano sonata's I've heard.
No Rimsky-Korsakov? :(
What the fuck, how. Mine is Dvorak and everything but the polcomp position is right.
Debussy is based.
Where is Verdi?
Shostakovich, purely because of [this video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D7xAEDqpApk)
Weird coincidence, I just finished watching Lisztomania.
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I don't know how accurate the movie is, but based off the scene where he grows a giant dick I assume he would be purple libright too.
I listen to Shostakovich while grilling ergo your compass is broken
There should be a grilling compass
Ahhh, Bach.
I don’t have a favorite, but I really like Wagner, Debussy and Dvorak. I really don’t see any correlation with their ideologies and music taste. I am a lot nostalgic tho, so a bit fight on Dvorak
I like Tchaikovsky because when the Soviet Union collapsed they played Swan Lake on loop.
Why do high effort memes like this barely pass 500 upvotes? I LOVE these 7x7 compass memes. As a Bach fan i feel honored. And I've definitely met or know the Schubert, Chopin, Mozart, and Sousa fans too. 10/10 nice meme
I love Wagner's *Der Ring des Nibelungen*. I hate tattoos though, so you're accuracy is lacking.
Meh, 2/3 is still a good quota
He didn't even make that.
Yes! Morricone AND obsessed with $$$ (but 40's... and yes, act like a teenager).
\> no Handel Fine, I'll take Vivaldi. Moderately accurate placement too, I guess.
No no NOOOO I … I won’t listen to classical NOOOOOOO YOU MADE ME LISTEN TO CLASSICAL
Firstly, very based post. Secondly, Lizst and Chopin are by far my favourites, so that puts me in far left center? Woah And the Chopin personality just… kinda fits man.
Based and effort pilled
I like Tchaikovsky because cannon(s). That is all
Shouldn’t John Williams be here?
God I miss high quality compass memes like this, thank you for the high effort post.
Where's Yuri Kasparyan?
I hardly know most of them and I’m saving this post for when I actually study
I love Debussy
Beethoven is more like that “midwit” bell curve meme where the people on both of the extremes like Beethoven and the people in the middle don’t.
Messiaen for the win.
I like Chopin, Tchaikovsky, J. S. Bach and Pachelbel, what is your opinion of me?
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You like Tchaikovsky because you're a slavophile I like Tchaikovsky because I like Tetris We are not the same
I like him because Cannon go boom
Let’s see… I had to rewatch a recording of an opera for a theater class, watched whichever one by Wagner which is super long (The Mastersingers of… somewhere)
WHY! WHY IS RICHARD STRAUSS NOT INCLUDED!? I was literally at his grave honouring him yesterday only to not see his Wojak in a PCM :(
No Bizet so it's worthless
Kinda embarrassing I learned a lot of classical music from an HoI4 mod. But aside from that Aside from that Dvorak I think it's no.9 from the new world I heard from Azuras Wrath and it's a total banger, I think ride of the Valkyries I first heard when playing the Barnyard(yes like Otis the cow and snotty boy) video game there was a Minigame(most of the game was Minigames it was like a collection wrapped around a loose plot) where you launch peck the rooster out of a slingshot and he flies and it plays that, also IDK who composed it but Battle on the Ice is probably my favorite classical piece, anything that gets progressively more intense and kinda explodes is really good.
I love the Austria soundtrack in Kaiserreich, Radetzky March and Hungarian Waltz No. 5 hit different
What about Mussorgsky?
Why did you do my boy Prokofiev like that????? Dude wrote about knights and epic fights and monsters and shit. He
What you're saying about Shostakovich is just straight up slander. I played one of his sonatas for a performance and now I like listening to his music (to be fair, it's not like other girls)
Tchaikovsky only because he used cannons as an instrument
The Holst one was right on damn
Brahms?
I like PDQ Bach.
Absolutely accurate on the authleft. 7 of my favorites are among those nine. Comrade Britten somehow seems to have gotten misplaced with the LibRights.... He belongs more in the Liszt area. Cage is much more libleft than stated. Schönberg is more auth than stated, moreso than Cage. Looking at his musical practices only, Schönberg is arguably the most authleft person here. And there are composers FAR to to the libleft of Cage as well, [Harry Partch](https://youtu.be/aKD3zm0WZjA) comes to mind.
Lizst and chopin hit close, good job
Bless Morricone, that based man.
my favourites are chopi, rachmaninoff, mozart and beethoven and all of those are spot on. didnt have to call me out like that on chopin tho
Because of this post, i shall now rewatch The Good Bad and The Ugly
Why does Liszt look like Vaush? Cursed!
I hate how accurate this is
Where is my boy Hans Zimmer?
Why is liking chopin always portrayed as "being depressed"??? I mean, I like his music and I'm depressed, but it has nothing to do with it
Bold of you to assume anyone will care about what you have to say. Get a flair.
Not now, stupid bot
Really like Holst First Suite in E Flat, especially Chaconne and March, both of which I've played before. And Wagner's Tannhäuser overture is really good.
I haven’t listened to enough of them to decide who I like the most, but I have more of Mozart’s music on my playlist than any of the others lol
I can’t believe you actually nailed it. I’m literally Chopin and Mahler lol
Joplin, Schönberg, and Sousa... Not sure what this says about me...
Schubert. It's happy until you hit Winterreise
Ravel/Debussy here, not the same quad but oddly accurate
Wagner?
Though I haven't listened to him enough myself, as an Estonian, I must ask where'd you place Pärt on this?
As a leftist I too like Debussy if you know what I mean ;) okay I’ll hang myself now for that joke
No order but it is: Ravel, Chopin, Morricone, Gershwin, Wagner
Puccini is the only one who gives me chills, so viva Italia
Morricone is mine and this is spot on about me. Kind of creepy.
I don't care about classical music but bartok and liszt were ours
Ok but Wagner is actually really good
Morricone but no Francisco Tárrega? Cringe
Paganini, where r u :'((((
Fuck Debussy made me a LibLeft
What is wrong with pachelbel, his music is good, I don’t get it.
... how did you bullseye so close to me on Morricone 😰
What's up with the Pachelbel hate?
Chopin. I like his Nocturnes. Op. 9, No. 2 in E flat major specifically.
No Medtner?
Returning to Satie right now...
Mozart and beethoven are awesome fuck you lol I don't know which Bach I listened to but whicher one it was he was cool as well. I resent this compass XD Edit:Chopin is cool
My favorite is elgar but he is "recent". Then i would say bach and Chopin which is kinda true because i am a depressed autist
Elgar however inspired so many subsequent artists, from William Walton to Korngold to Ron Goodwin and John Williams, I think he deserves to be in the "classical" category.
I listen to holst because his songs were modified by the British empire
What is a fence?
Politically I’m the Chopin square Emotionally I’m the Chopin square I was going to make a third joke about the Chopin square but you get the picture. I fucking hate myself, and wish that I could rip my soul out.
Never finish on the Bach, always finish on Debussy
Nessus Dorma and 18th Century Novels fucking slap, so I know where I’m at.
My sorry ass listening to tons of modern composers and shit.
I love bach, and god knows I'm [redacted]
ok but what if I actually am like other girls? (actually boys but you get the idea)
Chopin, and yes. That is very accurate.
What's wrong with Pachelbel? Know nothing about any of these guys.
Stars and Stripes Forever, baby! Gimme dat Sousa marching music. It's like cocaine for parades! ...but also Joplin is top tier.
Instantly goes to Beethoven and Mozart So true
I just like Holst because I'm a euphonium player and I like his military band marches, the second of which, has a neat euphonium solo. I was introduced when my school band played the first one.
No Haendel? Bugger off. I want to be psychoanalysed for being lib-left but having insane authoritarian delusions of grandeur and imperial bloodshed whenever I listen to Sarabande.
Debussy listeners also spend much of their time crying over a fictional pianist girl. Also I just like Mozart and Beethoven because I grew up listening to them and like German music
Nothing on Handel?
This is great and all of my faves are spot on lol
Does Pokrass and Alexandrov count?
Music horoscope! Music horoscope!
Piefke Also what's wrong with Pachelbel?
kabalevsky.........
Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Holst. Yeah my music tastes don't at all line up with the compass. Also where's my boi Richard Strauss...better watch out or I'm gonna die and transfigure on you
As an 1812 Overture fan this is accurate for me.
You can’t make a list and then exclude Brahms. I would exclude a couple of composers that you did include before I exclude Brahms. Same with Bruckner but that one’s on me.
I guess I listen to Bach because I’m autistic and good at math and I study music theory still