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Classical Composers is a podcast all about classical music! From Bernstein to Bach, Copland to Chopin, sonatas to symphonies, this covers everything classical music!
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S3E3: Classical dances

S3E3: Classical dances

2024-05-0105:58

Learn all about classical dances like the musette, mazurka, waltz, and sarabande in this episode of classical composers! Please pardon the absence of background music as it would have interfered with the piano.
S3E1: Arie Shapira

S3E1: Arie Shapira

2024-01-2503:11

Learn about the Israeli composer Arie Shapira! (No, that is not a typo; it’s Shapira, not Shapiro)
Happy Beethoven’s birthday! Learn all about him in this episode!
The last time I recorded this episode, I made a slight error in the dates, so I will attempt to rectify them mistake with the re-recording of the episode. Learn all about Avner Dorman in this episode!
In this episode, I will talk about my top five favourite classical pieces.
Please pardon the absence of my normal background music; it would have interfered with the piano playing.
S2 E9: Franz Liszt

S2 E9: Franz Liszt

2023-10-2205:27

Learn about the incredibly famous composer who is known for having ridiculously hard compositions and getting ridiculously big reactions for his performances in the mid-19th century.
S2E8: Avner Dorman

S2E8: Avner Dorman

2023-10-1201:11

Learn all about the Israeli composer Avner Dorman in this new episode!
S2E7: Emils Darzins

S2E7: Emils Darzins

2023-10-0503:14

Emils Darzins is a lesser known composer from the Baltic country of Latvia.
In this episode, let’s learn all about Rachmaninoff. He’s most well known for having incredibly huge hands and piano pieces with incredibly huge intervals.
What would it have been like if Mozart and Beethoven had a debate battle today? Find out in this episode!
S2 E4: Erik Satie

S2 E4: Erik Satie

2023-09-1306:14

Famous for his Gymnopedies, super-tranquil pieces, Satie has his own place in music history. Learn about him in today’s episode!
S2 E3: Jean Sibelius

S2 E3: Jean Sibelius

2023-09-0903:33

The Finnish composer is most well known for having a music notation software named after him. Today, we will learn about him and his works.
Learning and memorizing a tricky piano piece can feel very overwhelming. In this episode, we’ll discuss how to learn and memorize a piece effectively.
S2 E1: Claude Debussy

S2 E1: Claude Debussy

2023-08-2305:32

Learn all about Debussy’s life and works! If you’re a late intermediate-early advanced student, be sure to give Le petit Negre a try! Sheet music: https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/32/IMSLP04565-Debussy_-_The_Little_Negro.pdf If you liked this episode, please be sure to rate and follow the podcast!
Learning how to play music is an extremely rewarding experience, but you often may find yourself asking: which instrument is for me? This episode aims to help you choose the right instrument for you and the difficulty levels of each orchestra instrument.
Episode 3: the sonata

Episode 3: the sonata

2023-08-1508:03

Learn all about the form of the sonata and common ones you may have heard of, as well as how to write your own! EDIT: this episode appears near the top of the list as I had to re-record a section of it. I removed the Spotify track so that it is also available on Apple Podcasts.
Learn all about Leonard Bernstein’s life and works as his 105th birthday is coming up on the twenty-fifth!
Learn all about how to conduct, the history of conducting and why the conductor is a vital part of the orchestra. Often the conductor is also an instrumentalist.
Learn all about the different instruments of the percussion section!
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