pachelbel, for anyone who cares about spelling. I think that piece is nice to listen to, but i kind of characterize it as the pop of classical music. Simple, and fun. Still though, it is a nice piece. Not one of my favorites though.
But, my favorite is Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concert no. 1. Amazing, everyone should listen to it once. That is what i think went wrong with classical music, they started to go for a full orchestra and strayed from the godly instrumental family of strings.
Not really wrong, but i love strings. After the romantic era, everything got uglier and diverse for the sake of being diverse (e.g. John Crumb's sounds of the ancient...schoenberg, berg, webern, ehh. I can appreciate it, but that does not make it excellent music).
My favorite programmatic piece is Stravinski's the Rite of Spring. Maybe it is because i had to study it for a year and write too many essays on it, but still it is quite remarkable.
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