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In Reply to: Classical composers associated with countries posted by John C. - Aussie on November 10, 2004 at 15:21:44:
JCA,Interesting exercise as there are so many countries with multiple great composers and it's difficult to pin some composers down. Chopin was Polish and used Polish national rhythms but I think of as a Polish/French Composer. Was Liszt too the quintessential Hungarian voice? I think it would be difficult to pin down Italy, though Verdi is about as good as any. Stravinsky was a kind of Russo/Franco/American difficult to categorize really as he did not pull in traditional Russian bits.
Germany: I guess could be represented by Beethoven, but he had his career in Vienna and was deifinetly influenced. Maybe Wagner is the one that makes us think automatically of Germany- or at least one aspect of it?
For Austria, Mozart is the obvious one- and regardless of contemporary status, Salzburg has a most definite Austrian quality. But there was also the Second Viennese School so Schoenberg could get the modern nod. Schubert is a really Austrian fellow too with piles of gemuetlichkeit.
How about England? Dowland (long period in Denmark), Byrd, Tallis, Purcell, Handel (not English!), Britten? Interestingly, it is usually Handel -Fireworks and Water- that instantly invoked England.
Russia: I agree with Tchaikovsky and might add Prokofiev for another 20th C representative.
Amurka: Yes, Copland- all that Whitman and Frost, rodeos, hoe-downs, and American folk tunes. But Ives went further and had colliding town bands and even more patriotic, gospel, and folk tunes. Today: John Adams.
France: You've also got Debussy, Ravel and perhaps Ravel seems very typically French. My favourite French composers are Rameau and Satie.
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