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Ambiorix:
--- Quote from: Scriabin on February 13, 2008, 01:46:47 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ambiorix on February 13, 2008, 04:10:47 AM ---Scriabin,
What is your opinion on Russia?
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Russia changed in 1917 for the worse. Tzarist Russia was infinately superior to Commusnist Russia. Russia once had a huge and prosperous middle class. They used to produce Great Art, Literature, etc. Now what do they produce?
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don't you agree that some composers under the tyranny of Stalin wrote great symphonies/chamber music and so on?
Scriabin:
--- Quote from: Ambiorix on February 13, 2008, 03:54:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: Scriabin on February 13, 2008, 01:46:47 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ambiorix on February 13, 2008, 04:10:47 AM ---Scriabin,
What is your opinion on Russia?
--- End quote ---
Russia changed in 1917 for the worse. Tzarist Russia was infinately superior to Commusnist Russia. Russia once had a huge and prosperous middle class. They used to produce Great Art, Literature, etc. Now what do they produce?
--- End quote ---
don't you agree that some composers under the tyranny of Stalin wrote great symphonies/chamber music and so on?
--- End quote ---
Of course, but I can only Imagine what could have been.
There has been an overall decline in Music, Art, civilization and culture since Beethoven. Did Communism play a role in that decline? Probably.
Still, most of the great Russian Stalinist-era composers lived in America or at least, outside of Russia.
Ambiorix:
--- Quote from: Scriabin on February 13, 2008, 04:01:09 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ambiorix on February 13, 2008, 03:54:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: Scriabin on February 13, 2008, 01:46:47 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ambiorix on February 13, 2008, 04:10:47 AM ---Scriabin,
What is your opinion on Russia?
--- End quote ---
Russia changed in 1917 for the worse. Tzarist Russia was infinately superior to Commusnist Russia. Russia once had a huge and prosperous middle class. They used to produce Great Art, Literature, etc. Now what do they produce?
--- End quote ---
don't you agree that some composers under the tyranny of Stalin wrote great symphonies/chamber music and so on?
--- End quote ---
Of course, but I can only Imagine what could have been.
There has been an overall decline in Music, Art, civilization and culture since Beethoven. Did Communism play a role in this decline? Probably.
Still, most of the great Russian Stalinist-era composers lived in America or at least, outside of Russia.
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I disagree.
I don't think Communism is the cause of this.
It is the industrial revolution, and the fall of the Feodal System.
Beethoven actually advocated far-left Napoleonistic policies himself...
Scriabin:
--- Quote from: Ambiorix on February 13, 2008, 04:04:24 PM ---
--- Quote from: Scriabin on February 13, 2008, 04:01:09 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ambiorix on February 13, 2008, 03:54:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: Scriabin on February 13, 2008, 01:46:47 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ambiorix on February 13, 2008, 04:10:47 AM ---Scriabin,
What is your opinion on Russia?
--- End quote ---
Russia changed in 1917 for the worse. Tsarist Russia was infinitely superior to Communist Russia. Russia once had a huge and prosperous middle class. They used to produce Great Art, Literature, etc. Now what do they produce?
--- End quote ---
don't you agree that some composers under the tyranny of Stalin wrote great symphonies/chamber music and so on?
--- End quote ---
Of course, but I can only Imagine what could have been.
There has been an overall decline in Music, Art, civilization and culture since Beethoven. Did Communism play a role in this decline? Probably.
Still, most of the great Russian Stalinist-era composers lived in America or at least, outside of Russia.
--- End quote ---
I disagree.
I don't think Communism is the cause of this.
It is the industrial revolution, and the fall of the Feodal System.
--- End quote ---
You are probably right about the industrial revolution. I do know this, however. A delicate artist like Scriabin would have perished under the Bolshevik regime. Its a good thing that he died in 1915.
It is interesting to note that all of the Communist-era composers are insensitive, thick-skinned, angry paranoid types like Shostakovitch, Stravinsky and Prokofiev.
Scriabin:
--- Quote from: Ambiorix on February 13, 2008, 04:04:24 PM ---Beethoven actually advocated far-left Napoleonistic policies himself...
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Beethoven may have had left-wing beliefs, but his music is non-political.
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