Do you like waltzes?
My favorite part in them is that highest peak of drama when the melody goes from almost complete silence to the incredible storm of sound and emotion. That’s what can easily make my eyes wet for a second or two, and I don’t often cry from music.
This bright description was born mainly due to one composition that keeps inspiring me and warming my souls for quite a few years now. I am talking about the waltz “My Sweet and Tender Beast” composed by Eugen Doga, a popular Moldavian/Romanian composer who used to be very famous at the time of USSR. Well, he is famous now too but the point is that I might have never known about him (and this amazing waltz) if not by chance. And I’m glad that chance came up. During the long 40 years this waltz that was created for the movie “My Sweet and Tender Beast” has been around and people were charmed by its power. But I only learnt about it when UNESCO named this work the fourth musical masterpiece of the 20th century. That’s when Doga’s music opened up to me in all its beauty and near-perfection.
In case you, just like me are one of those rare people who still haven’t heard the work, here’s a chance for you to listen and get swept by it and here’s the piano score for those who would love to get inside the storm.
To me, that’s a piece perfect in times of both form and the emotional charge. Enjoy.
My favorite part in them is that highest peak of drama when the melody goes from almost complete silence to the incredible storm of sound and emotion. That’s what can easily make my eyes wet for a second or two, and I don’t often cry from music.
This bright description was born mainly due to one composition that keeps inspiring me and warming my souls for quite a few years now. I am talking about the waltz “My Sweet and Tender Beast” composed by Eugen Doga, a popular Moldavian/Romanian composer who used to be very famous at the time of USSR. Well, he is famous now too but the point is that I might have never known about him (and this amazing waltz) if not by chance. And I’m glad that chance came up. During the long 40 years this waltz that was created for the movie “My Sweet and Tender Beast” has been around and people were charmed by its power. But I only learnt about it when UNESCO named this work the fourth musical masterpiece of the 20th century. That’s when Doga’s music opened up to me in all its beauty and near-perfection.
In case you, just like me are one of those rare people who still haven’t heard the work, here’s a chance for you to listen and get swept by it and here’s the piano score for those who would love to get inside the storm.
To me, that’s a piece perfect in times of both form and the emotional charge. Enjoy.
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