General Music Chat

I wish that we were able to see what Jason Becker was capable of today. Too bad ALS took his abilities from him at such a young age. Genius mind..

I think that same thing has been said about a lot of musicians who died young; Hendrix and Mozart come to mind. All we can do is be thankful they existed and left us wonderful music.

Etu, determining the greatest musician of all time is of course impossible. Most left not a trace. But the ones who did leave some form of output can be discussed and compared. At the end of the day it's just opinion anyway.

All of this should inspire folks to write some music, get it recorded or published and get it out there. In a hundred years no one is going to care about your mortgage or problems at work.

I think that same thing has been said about a lot of musicians who died young; Hendrix and Mozart come to mind. All we can do is be thankful they existed and left us wonderful music.

Etu, determining the greatest musician of all time is of course impossible. Most left not a trace. But the ones who did leave some form of output can be discussed and compared. At the end of the day it's just opinion anyway.

All of this should inspire folks to write some music, get it recorded or published and get it out there. In a hundred years no one is going to care about your mortgage or problems at work.

Absolutely, you don't have to be Mozart, Bach. Anderson ( not Ian ), Burton. You can be Heil, Cesaro, Montgomery, Danger...Titus Don't go through life without throwing in your own personal opus or two.

The OP is "The Greatest Musican in History"
*Musician . . . ahem

So, how do we decide this?

I don't believe there is a greatest musician. We all have our ideas of what 'great' is. Personally,I am more interested in who is your favorite musician, why and how they influenced you as a musician.

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The Psalms of King David of Israel have been covered by more people in history than any other songwriter.

I hear he was a mean harp player, too....

The Psalms of King David of Israel have been covered by more people in history than any other songwriter.

I hear he was a mean harp player, too....

Do you mean 'covered' by that these Psalms have been performed daily somewhere?

'Covered' to me is recorded and released, if that is indeed the case then The Beatles' "Yesterday" supposedly is the most covered song in history (remember, they were "more popular than Jesus"!)

I hear he was a mean harp player, too....

I heard he was late for gigs all the time.

Weird Al plays a mean accordion!

There are over 26,000 known recordings of the music of J.S.Bach. His music has been transcribed to every kind of instrument known and sounds good on all of them, whether solo or in concertos. He was the the preeminent Baroque composer, and his children were great in their own rights.

Speaking of composers/musicians

The A list
1. Ludwig Van Beethoven - 1770-1827
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - 1756-1791
3. Johann Sebastian Bach - 1685-1750
4. Richard Wagner - 1813-1883
5. Joseph Haydn - 1732-1809
6. Johannes Brahms - 1833-1897
7. Franz Schubert - 1797-1828
8. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 1840-1893
9. George Frideric Handel - 1685-1759
10. Igor Stravinsky - 1882-1971
11. Robert Schumann - 1810-1856
12. Frederic Chopin - 1810-1849
13. Felix Mendelssohn - 1809-1847
14. Claude Debussy - 1862-1918
15. Franz Liszt - 1811-1886
16. Antonin Dvorak - 1841-1904
17. Giuseppe Verdi - 1813-1901
18. Gustav Mahler - 1860-1911
19. Hector Berlioz - 1803-1869
20. Antonio Vivaldi - 1678-1741
21. Richard Strauss - 1864-1949
22. Serge Prokofiev - 1891-1953
23. Dmitri Shostakovich - 1906-1975
24. Béla Bartók - 1881-1945
25. Anton Bruckner - 1824-1896
26. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - 1525-1594
27. Claudio Monteverdi - 1567-1643
28. Jean Sibelius - 1865-1957
29. Maurice Ravel - 1875-1937
30. Ralph Vaughan Williams - 1872-1958
31. Modest Mussorgsky - 1839-1881
32. Giacomo Puccini - 1858-1924
33. Henry Purcell - 1659-1695
34. Gioacchino Rossini - 1792-1868
35. Edward Elgar - 1857-1934
36. Sergei Rachmaninoff - 1873-1943
37. Camille Saint-Saëns - 1835-1921
38. Josquin Des Prez - c.1440-1521
39. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - 1844-1908
40. Carl Maria von Weber - 1786-1826
41. Jean-Philippe Rameau - 1683-1764
42. Jean-Baptiste Lully - 1632-1687
43. Gabriel Fauré - 1845-1924
44. Edvard Grieg - 1843-1907
45. Christoph Willibald Gluck - 1714-1787
46. Arnold Schoenberg - 1874-1951
47. Charles Ives - 1874-1954
48. Paul Hindemith - 1895-1963
49. Olivier Messiaen - 1908-1992
50. Aaron Copland - 1900-1990
51. Francois Couperin - 1668-1733
52. William Byrd - 1539-1623
53. Erik Satie - 1866-1925
54. Benjamin Britten - 1913-1976
55. Bedrick Smetana - 1824-1884
56. César Franck - 1822-1890
57. Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin - 1872-1915
58. Georges Bizet - 1838-1875
59. Domenico Scarlatti - 1685-1757
60. Georg Philipp Telemann - 1681-1767
61. Anton Webern - 1883-1945
62. Roland de Lassus - 1532-1594
63. George Gershwin - 1898-1937
64. Gaetano Donizetti - 1797-1848
65. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - 1714-1788
66. Archangelo Corelli - 1653-1713
67. Thomas Tallis - 1505-1585
68. Jules Massenet - 1842-1912
69. Johann Strauss II - 1825-1899
70. Leos Janácek - 1854-1928
71. Guillaume de Machaut - 1300-1377
72. Alban Berg - 1885-1935
73. Alexander Borodin - 1833-1887
74. Vincenzo Bellini - 1801-1835
75. Charles Gounod - 1818-1893
76. Francis Poulenc - 1899-1963
77. Giovanni Gabrieli - 1554-1612
78. Pérotin - 1160-1225
79. Heinrich Schütz - 1585-1672
80. John Cage - 1912-1992
81. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - 1710-1736
82. John Dowland - 1563-1626
83. Gustav Holst - 1874-1934
84. Dietrich Buxtehude - 1637-1707
85. Ottorino Respighi - 1879-1936
86. Guillaume Dufay - 1400-1474
87. Hugo Wolf - 1860-1903
88. Carl Nielsen - 1865-1931
89. William Walton - 1902-1983
90. Darius Milhaud - 1892-1974
91. Orlando Gibbons - 1583-1625
92. Giacomo Meyerbeer - 1791-1864
93. Samuel Barber - 1910-1981
94. Tomás Luis de Victoria - 1549-1611
95. Léonin - 1135-1201
96. Manuel de Falla - 1876-1946
97. Hildegard von Bingen - 1098-1179
98. Mikhail Glinka - 1804-1857
99. Alexander Glazunov - 1865-1936
100. Don Carlo Gesualdo - 1566-1613

What a Liszt! You lost me after Chopin. As a contemporary- of sorts I would guess you are quite learned of ability to drum to any of these Liszted! Am I wrong? Doubt it! But, common' Gershwin =63? Where did this Liszt come from? I used to play piano to these. Know Schubert's Serenade? It's been a very long time. I was a teen then.

I kinda like Zappa especially his 70s stuff

Hey just a thought, you would probably get more readers if you interviewed controversial people for your blog.

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