Russian classical music

What's the deal with Russia not producing any noteworthy music until XIXth century and then suddenly producing so many great composers of classical music? Why did it happen?
>Tchaikovsky
>Prokofiev
>Rachmaninoff
>Stravinsky
>Rimsky-Korsakov
>Musorgsky
>Glinka
>Shostakovich
>Borodin
How did they catch up without a classical tradition?

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>German. German. Composers are always German.

And which composers from this list are german?

None of these composers are great

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>Tchaikovsky
>Stravinsky

Good.
The rest are literally who (?) to me.

You know Stravinsky but don't know Prokofiev and Shostakovich?

Retarded.

Edgy.

All I know is Russia was on its way to becoming a major economic, political and military power when the Bolshevik revolution arrested its development.

And cultural as well.

Soviet cultural policy in music made an emphasis on composing folk-inspired music, this killed off most of the russian classical tradition, don't forget that many composers fled after the revolution

Enlightenment took roots. Peter the great and Catherine the great did a good job of setting Russia on the course of greatness.

Stravinsky, a staunch anti-Bolshevist, said he didn't blame the soviet government for condemning Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. That's how awful he thought it was.

That's an interesting piece of information

Never heard of any of these guys or their music

You probably have, but you're not associating the name with the music. Anyway, check them out on JewTube, you might like it.

Veeky Forums is dead.

I'm not knowledgeable on the subject, but I'm bumping this so the "Slavs aren't white" crowd can learn.

>tchaik
utter shit
>prokofiev
alright
>rach
worse than tchaik
>stravinsky
good
>rimsky
alright
>mussorgsky
overrated
>glinka
bad
>shostakovich
babby's first classical
>borodin
proto-film music shit

Spotted the victim of American education system.

well then, you have something to find out, please, expand your palate

I'm getting fed up with this meme, and your rear will be holding court with my boot should we ever meet.

>why did russia suddenly produce so many nonames in XIXth century?

>Stravinsky, Prokofiev better than Tchaikovsky
>am I edgy yet?
Prokofiev is pretty mediocre aside from one symphony and two violin concertos.

>being this mad
Nothing personal m8 but your schools are shit

>tchaikovsky
>good

l ' a r t p o m p i e r

Russian composers are overrated. I challenge you to prove that any of these composers wrote good music, pro-tip: you can't

Shit bait

not baiting, you just have shit taste

Edgy

>Stravinsky
Le chords
Le syncopated rhythms
No substance
No counterpoint
Literally vacuity: the composer.

Care to explain your superior patrician taste then?

>no counterpoint

t. has never looked at a stravinsky piece

Please elaborate on how you came to this conclusion

This post is autistic on so many levels

it is true that inner city schools under-perform, but outside of that it isn't the case, the private alternative also exists

What do you listen to? Penderecki?

nice one m8

>2017
>has still only listened to threnody

penderecki doesn't write music like that anymore bro

>embellished accompaniment
>counterpoint
Wew.

I bet you rate movies based on the special effects.

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dumb

t. Béla Bártok listener

>Wew
>>>/facebook/

That bait has wielded many a (You)!

ITT: rampant Veeky Forumstrionic hipsterism

>being this much of an edgy ironic hipster

What makes a composer good to you? Are you one of those edgelords who thinks that classical music begins and ends with Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven?

The ability to compose complex, rich music. Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninoff are like babies compared to great european composers.