[Sloe]

Even if he was heavy, he could write light music.

Tell me: What is the purpose of this thread??

I don´t know people ask for the sexiest composer so why can´t they ask for the heaviest composer.

 

[clavichorder]

Poor guy who started this thread, it was a legitimate question and the intentional misinterpretation was all too predictable. But it was taken in a good direction all the same.

The symphony of weight gain was another composer's answer to the 'Obesity Symphony'. More programmatic.

Mvt 1: The sedentary life and fine dining
Mvt. 2: Recipes on youtube and ambitions of starting a restaurant
Mvt. 3: Pure eatin', fat over flavor
Mvt. 4: Experimental Psychedelic Pancakes
Mvt. 5: Oh my god I'm so fat!

 

[jtbell]

William Howard Taft

Especially when he fronted the Supremes.

For "heavy" as in "heavy metal", there's Jón Leifs (e.g. "Hekla").

For "heavy" as in German food, there's Max Reger.

 

[amfortas]

No, Johann Sebastian, your butt makes your butt look big.

 

[ArtMusic]

Handel was quite obese in weight. His music was mighty.

 

[Xenakiboy]

Damn, either I didn't specify enough (thinking that you'd assume what I was meaning) or you're all trolling. I was meaning heaviest as in, darkest, most aggressive styled composers, building off the developments of Varese, Xenakis, Ligeti, Penderecki etc.

Now that we've cleared that up...

 

[Xenakiboy]

Poor guy who started this thread, it was a legitimate question and the intentional misinterpretation was all too predictable. But it was taken in a good direction all the same.

The symphony of weight gain was another composer's answer to the 'Obesity Symphony'. More programmatic.

Mvt 1: The sedentary life and fine dining
Mvt. 2: Recipes on youtube and ambitions of starting a restaurant
Mvt. 3: Pure eatin', fat over flavor
Mvt. 4: Experimental Psychedelic Pancakes
Mvt. 5: Oh my god I'm so fat!

Thanks for understanding, because the weight of composers REALLY affects their music...

 

[clavichorder]

Damn, either I didn't specify enough (thinking that you'd assume what I was meaning) or you're all trolling. I was meaning heaviest as in, darkest, most aggressive styled composers, building off the developments of Varese, Xenakis, Ligeti, Penderecki etc.

Now that we've cleared that up...

Have you tried Elliot Carter String Quartets? I first suggested Beethoven because he came out of a period of music that was of the lightest, fluffiest classical elegance, didn't add too many new chords and used the available forms, and he is more intense than most of the 19th century composers that followed him.

 

[Triplets]

Damn, either I didn't specify enough (thinking that you'd assume what I was meaning) or you're all trolling. I was meaning heaviest as in, darkest, most aggressive styled composers, building off the developments of Varese, Xenakis, Ligeti, Penderecki etc.

Now that we've cleared that up...

Absolutely we were trolling. It seems like you have taken it in stride. Welcome aboard.
Personally, I like the last movements of Tchaikovsky 6 and Brahms 4, or the Adagio of Mahler 10, but these may be a bit to late Romantic Period for your question. Bartok's String Quartets or Ligetti might be closer to your intentions.

 

[KenOC]

Handel was quite obese in weight. His music was mighty.

Handel was so massive that whenever he went to the seashore the tide came in.

 

[clavichorder]

Handel was so massive that whenever he went to the seashore the tide came in.

His celestial greatness.

 

[EarthBoundRules]

Heavy as in dark? Shostakovich.

 

[Xenakiboy]

Heavy as in dark? Shostakovich.

Heavy as in (but not limited to) dark, aggressive, violent, shocking. Both in the harmonic sense (really dissonant) and the timbrel (heavy percussion).

 

[Xenakiboy]

Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing?

I noticed that reference, and you thought you could sneak it in. "I am the coming of a new age"

 

[Huilunsoittaja]

I love this thread.... And y'all should know why



*AHEM*

Enough said...

:lol:

 

[Woodduck]

I think Reger qualifies. His music might too.

 

[Heliogabo]

Edgar Varése, no other like him. Not in vain he co- worked with Antonin Artaud (who tought Messiaen's music was too light). Words and music by two truly bombastic artists

 

[TradeMark]

Heavy as in (but not limited to) dark, aggressive, violent, shocking. Both in the harmonic sense (really dissonant) and the timbrel (heavy percussion).

You might want to look into Bartok. His music seems to fit that description relatively well.

 

[Xenakiboy]

You might want to look into Bartok. His music seems to fit that description relatively well.

I own almost all his work's on cd/Vinyl and own quite a few scores, he was one of the composers that got me into classical, no stranger to Bartok!

 

[fluteman]

Edgar Varése, no other like him. Not in vain he co- worked with Antonin Artaud (who tought Messiaen's music was too light). Words and music by two truly bombastic artists

I agree (though it's Edgard. not Edgar). Arnold Schoenberg was a formidable hombre for abandoning a concept of tonality that had been generally accepted in Western music for centuries, but having done that, he was otherwise quite conservative, clinging to traditional 19th-century classical forms. Charles Ives was one of the earliest to embrace outright dissonance. Your boy Xenakis is also one bad dude. Elliott Carter is indeed a king of dissonance in much but not all of his work. George Rochberg too. I think the Max Reger suggestion was a joke. He's a favorite composer of mine, a neo-Brahmsian with thicker orchestral textures, and yes, distinctly more dissonance than Brahms, but it's hard to see how Brahms could be one's baseline for dissonance.