Which composer has the hardest music?

Technically the most difficult composers would have to be Liszt and Rachmaninoff.

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How do you practice rhythm on piano?

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You asked me a question about what I appreciate in Sorabji's music and I answered it to the best of my ability based upon many years of experience of it.

You wrote

"his music might set him apart from others - but so does Steve Reich or John Cage, but most of them are ridiculed for their musical abominations"; who is ridiculing Reich, Cage or Sorabji for their alleged "musical abominations"?

You then wrote

"I mean seriously, give a kid enough hours in the day, plenty of paint and tell them to create a mess, you'll get something very much like the above picture... and it sure as sh*t wouldn't be worth millions of dollars" You refer here to the Jackson Pollock that you reproduced above; give a kid enough hours in the day, a Bösendorfer 290 and tell them to do something and what you will not get is a performnce of Sorabji's Sequentia Cyclica!

You then note

"Ongoing 'classical' tradition??? I think the classical tradition broke around the turn of the 1900's where music became more clinical. People used music and the art world as social experiments to see if they could create music differently, but in doing so usually turned their art into political statements, experiments, or just made fun of the traditional classical forms and harmonies calling them 'antiquated'." Your view and the material upon which you seek to express it is gravely abd clearly limited by its selectivity; you mention the turn of the past century yet seem oblivious the the vast variety of fine music written between then and the outbreak of WWI by such composers as Elgar, Strauss, Magnard, Schmitt, Debussy, Mahler, Busoni, Ravel, Scriabin and so very many others.

Lastly, you write

"Look at John Cage's 4'33" or ASALP (I think that's the name), or even Steve Reich's clapping hands. Most of it is a curiosity, but in the long run bears no resemblance, depth or beauty to the music music created by Bach, (late) Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Alkan, Albéniz, Debussy, Busoni, Granados, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Medtner or Szymanowski, if we're being honest" but I was looking at neither; Sorabji is very much in the traditions of those composers whom you rightly mention here.

Best,

Alistair

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What is the 1 best song of all time?

Aretha Franklin's 'Respect' named Greatest Song of All Time by Rolling Stone. (WTRF) – Rolling Stone has released its latest list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and the Queen of Soul is at the top. Aretha Franklin's “Respect” topped the list as the No. 1 song, according to the entertainment magazine and website ...

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(WTRF) – Rolling Stone has released its latest list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and the Queen of Soul is at the top. Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” topped the list as the No. 1 song, according to the entertainment magazine and website. The outlet said the 1967 hit “catalyzed rock & roll, gospel, and blues to create the model for soul music that artists still look to today.” “Just as important, the song’s unapologetic demands resonated powerfully with the civil rights movement and emergent feminist revolution, fitting for an artist who donated to the Black Panther Party and sang at the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.,” Rolling Stone added. “In her 1999 memoir, Franklin wrote that the song reflected ‘the need of the average man and woman in the street, the businessman, the mother, the fireman, the teacher — everyone wanted respect.’ We still do.” Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” which took the top spot last year, came in at No. 6 this year.

Here’s the list’s top 10:

1: Aretha Franklin — “Respect”

2: Public Enemy — “Fight The Power”

3: Sam Cooke — “A Change is Gonna Come”

6: Marvin Gaye — “What’s Going On”

7: The Beatles — “Strawberry Fields Forever”

8: Missy Elliott — “Get Ur Freak On”

9: Fleetwood Mac — “Dreams”

10: Outkast — “Hey Ya’

Rolling Stone first published its Greatest Songs list in 2004, and it says it’s “one of the most widely read stories in our history.”

Click here to see the full list of the top 500 songs.

Can you learn piano on a keyboard?

Yes, learning piano on a keyboard is possible. The layout of keys is identical on both instruments.

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Can you learn piano at 60 years old?

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What is the smallest piano?

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Which singer has perfect pitch?

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