I forgot Mahler. Also too Wagner (shut up, he did change everything) Mendelssohn, Wolf, (my god, how could we forget him!) and various Strausses.
Which made me dig |this up|, arguably the most magnificent of magnificent German poems, set to transcendent music by Richard Strauss before his weird period, and sung by the incomparable Jessie Norman.
For all their scrupulous efficiency and clear-eyed humorlessness, nobody brings teh sentimental schmaltz like das germanische Volk. Great stuff!
Also Too: Bunsen, Einstein, Gauss, Heisenberg, Immanuel Kant (a real pissant), Johannes Peter Müller, Schwarzschild, Max Planck, von Humboldt, Kepler, Gauss, et cetera…
Because you Smart People got all the great musical and philosophical geniuses, | all I have is this. |
I had Planck!
Gauss was weird too.
Show off. Gregor Mendel! Austrian, but still…
If Austrians are allowed (and they probably should be) then we have to let Mozart in, along with novelist Robert Musil. Add bean-counter Mendel, and this completes my very short list of Austrian geniuses. That erstwhile paperhanger from Branau am Inn kind of ruined it for everybody else.
Also too: "Germany" and "Austria" are pretty recent constructs, built at unimaginable costs to everybody.
That asshole should have stuck to landscape painting. And all this Putin talk about "Greater Russia" and protecting Russian language speakers is making me very uneasy.
If I'm not mistaken, one of them is Chevy Chase, homegrown American Idiot.
He was such a great ur-snarky talent on the first year of "Saturday Night Live." Hard to figure why he wanted to quit that and make kid movies instead.
Well, via links, there is also an artist in Munich named Yongbo Zhao.
<img src="http://www.yongbozhao.com/Bilder/Malerei_2015/LUZ_4473N.jpg" width="400" height="400">
Experts' views differ as to what motivated Zhao's poop period.
Zhao is now considered a pioneer in the Neo-Excrementalist Movement.
<img src="https://media4.giphy.com/media/lVDaJkQ47UY3C/200w.gif" />>
|Es wird nacht senorita|
I like it.
<img src="https://media4.giphy.com/media/l0HlLZ8cy3VUnmhpK/200w.gif" />
|Oktoberfest Zeitraffer|
|Mein LaBrassBanda Lieblingslied|
<img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/3xz2BCe5jn2j4OM9ZS/giphy.gif" />
Just a reminder as I look at the dipshits in the gif above: Goethe, Planck, Schiller, Beethoven, Böll, Hesse, Bach, Dürer, the Reformaton.
Heine, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Wieck, Handel, Hayden, Hesse, Beckmann, Kollwitz.
Oh, and |Fritz Wunderlich.|
I had Hesse in my list! Das Glasperlenspiel ftw!
But your list is excellent too. Can't claim Musil and Mozart, but how about Thomas Mann. Der Zauberberg!
And Hieronymus Bosch
I forgot Mahler. Also too Wagner (shut up, he did change everything) Mendelssohn, Wolf, (my god, how could we forget him!) and various Strausses.
Which made me dig |this up|, arguably the most magnificent of magnificent German poems, set to transcendent music by Richard Strauss before his weird period, and sung by the incomparable Jessie Norman.
Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind;
Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,
Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.
|Definitive interpretation.|
Going to the Prado would be worth it if this were the only thing you ever saw.
<img src="http://madamepickwickartblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bosch4.jpg">
Yes yes, Bosch is Dutch. But that's just a dialect of German, like English
Mind blowing.
I was thinking of Mahler for the above list, which made me dig up |this.|
And in the same spirit, Lehar was Hungarian but who's counting.|
For all their scrupulous efficiency and clear-eyed humorlessness, nobody brings teh sentimental schmaltz like das germanische Volk. Great stuff!
Also Too: Bunsen, Einstein, Gauss, Heisenberg, Immanuel Kant (a real pissant), Johannes Peter Müller, Schwarzschild, Max Planck, von Humboldt, Kepler, Gauss, et cetera…
Because you Smart People got all the great musical and philosophical geniuses, | all I have is this. |
I had Planck!
Gauss was weird too.
Show off. Gregor Mendel! Austrian, but still…
If Austrians are allowed (and they probably should be) then we have to let Mozart in, along with novelist Robert Musil. Add bean-counter Mendel, and this completes my very short list of Austrian geniuses. That erstwhile paperhanger from Branau am Inn kind of ruined it for everybody else.
Also too: "Germany" and "Austria" are pretty recent constructs, built at unimaginable costs to everybody.
That asshole should have stuck to landscape painting. And all this Putin talk about "Greater Russia" and protecting Russian language speakers is making me very uneasy.
If I'm not mistaken, one of them is Chevy Chase, homegrown American Idiot.
Ha! Erzatz deutscher!
National Lampoon's European Vacation.
It wasn't enough to firebomb Dresden, we had ti inflict Chase on them too?
He was such a great ur-snarky talent on the first year of "Saturday Night Live." Hard to figure why he wanted to quit that and make kid movies instead.
make money off your one trick ASAP, I figure.