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Only recently discovered the music of Claude Debussy, this is a wonderful piece:
Clair De Lune:
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The Lark Ascending, Vaughan Williams:
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The only time I hate Nietzsche is his claim the English have no music, fair enough this was composed long after he died but I doubt many can hear this and believe the claim.
Beauty itself.
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Actually, it was an author by the name of Oscar Adolf Hermann Schmitz in his book Das Land Ohne Musik (1904) who said that (unless Nietzsche also said something similar, of course).
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Originally Posted by Oscar Adolf Hermann Schmitz
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Translation by Alexa Woolf
I have long tried to understand what kind of lack it is that manifests itself in so many English representations which have such a deadening effect. I have asked myself what is missing from this nation. Kindness, love of people, humour or aesthetic sense? No, one can find all these attributes in England , some of them more noticeably than among ourselves. Finally I have found something which distinguishes English people from all other cultures to quite an aastonishing degree, a lack which everybody acknowledges therefore nothing new but has not been emphasised enough. The English are the only cultured nation without its own music (except street music). This does not mean that they have less sensitive ears but that their life overall is much poorer for it. To be immersed in music, even ever so little, means being able to lose yourself. To tolerate even dis-harmonies, even to spend time with such sounds since they can be resolved in beautiful harmony, music provides wings and makes everything beautiful and fantastical seem natural.
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Excerpt only, but you get the idea. Minimalism at its best.
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