Beethoven didn't have the musical gene.
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I didn’t know about Liszt until a few years ago and I like his music. My favorite Beethoven symphony is 6. The pastoral movement always makes me think of Soylent Green. I know it’s not well known but I love the first symphony as well. I’ll take any other classical suggestions you have
The period between classical and Romanticism is pretty good, as well as a lot of "authentic" Romantic composers. I'll be showing some of my ignorance here, but Liszt, Ravel, Chopin, Schubert, and Rachmaninoff are all great. Rachmaninoff also led to this wonderful peice. The influence of Romantic composers on jazz cats was pretty heavy, really showing through around the 1950's into the mid 60's. I know you were asking for classical but the album The Scene Changes by Bud Powell is another great example of this. It's one of my favorite albums of all time.
Love Schubert’s unfinished and went out and got Rachmaninov after that joke on Willy Wonka. Will download The Scene Changes. Thanks!
The opener, Cleopatra's Dream, is in my top five. Bill Evans is I think my favorite artist, he played with Davis, but Powell is something else. Hope you dig it!
Edit because this is just funny, the whole "Who actually wrote Kind of Blue" is quite the rabbit hole.
Really? That wasn’t Miles Davis? Lately when it comes to Jazz I’ve been on a Coltrane kick with Love Supreme as well as his version of My Favorite Things