Beethoven, the Heavy Metal of the Early 19th Century! | Nicolas Ellis | TEDxYouth@Montreal

Young orchestral conductor, Nicolas Ellis, shares his passion for conducting and for one of his favorite composers.
Originating from Chicoutimi, Nicolas Ellis is the founder and artistic director of the OSA: l’Orchestre symphonique de l’Agora. This organization’s mission is to raise funds for social, humanitarian and environmental aide organizations. Alongside his activities with the orchestra, Nicolas was recently appointed conductor in residence of I Musici de Montréal’’s chamber orchestra and will assume his duties in June 2015.
In the summer of 2013, he participated in the Accademia Chigiana in Sienne, Italy, where he worked with Maestro Gianluigo Gelmetti and with the della Fondazione Bulgaria Classic orchestra. This past summer, at the Aspen Music Festival and School, he worked beside Robert Spano, conductor of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. During his time in Aspen, he participated in many master classes including those given by Leonard Slatkin, Hugh Wolff and Johanne Debus. It was in Aspen where Nicolas was named assistant conductor for the production of Carmen and worked alongside Spanish conductor Josep Caballé-Domenech.
In 2010, Nicolas was distinguished as first place prize winner in the under 18-year category for piano at the Canada Music Competition. In 2013, semi-finalist in the Jeunesses Musicales International Conducting Competition in Bucharest, Romania, he conducted the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra.
Nicolas completed his baccalaureate in classical piano, under Jean Saulnier, at the University of Montreal in 2013. Since then, he has studied orchestral conducting under Alexis Hauser at McGill University where he was the recipient of a Prestigious Schulich Scholarship.
When not preoccupied with his studies, Nicolas can be found with a soya latte in hand, walking his magnificent Labrador-mix, Suki, down Bernard Street in Montreal.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@schiopujohnny7802]

Frustrated, moody, alcoholic abusive father, messy room, no girlfriends, highly passionate, unappreciated most of his life, doesn't get much more metal than that

[@hotasianstepsister3039]

that should be dark metal!!!

[@randalllayton7452]

Sounds a lot like me...hope I dont go deaf

[@andrewhigdon8346]

Felice Fiorenza I’ve been told I was gonna go blind since I was 13. I’m 48 now and I can still see. Kinda.

[@dalealldredge6369]

yeah, very enticing isn't it?

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

@@randalllayton7452 I havd a theory that all those beatings Beethoven got from his dad damaged his ears.

[@kevinhutcheson1854]

Beethoven built monumental structures out of simple ideas. He was a master of variation and theme development. But he also had a gift for melody. He wrote some of the most beautiful melodies in classical music, and he was the first romantic. A true genius!

[@nobnobnobnob]

On the other hand, can we say that Heavy Metal bands are the Beethoven of the current times?

[@Shigellosis]

beethoven was artistic.. the majority of current bands focus on shitloads of distortion and the heaviest and lowest tone they can get especially with the new djent shit. Are they both loud and full of energy? yes, but beethoven had proper melody and rhythm. Why am I thinking too deep about this?

[@Typhoon792]

Metal is my favorite genre of music. It also happens to be the most diverse. I never listened to the kind of crap you're referring to to begin with and still don't. Plenty of excellent Metal bands who don't have those kind of influences.

[@zacharywalsh6481]

Thugzilla music doesn't have to be melodic it can be rthymic in nature. and djent can be some of the most raw and rthymic of most music.

[@themightymcb7310]

Thugzilla Check out anything by Meshuggah and try to tell me that it isn't a rhythmic masterpiece. All of those guys are immensely talented

[@Shigellosis]

I checked out Meshuggah.. I can understand why people like them, but they're not really my type.. I'm more of a Butcher babies kinda guy

[@DonnyDaison]

If I had a time machine, I would find Beethoven and take him to a Meshuggah concert

[@Merceauroix]

no

[@TrevRockOne]

Greedy Rick He'd be glad he was deaf.

[@AntalopeAUT]

Maybe we could be seeing him headbanging that wig off of his head ... who knoweth, but the lord ? :P

[@shenruivah]

TrevRockOne lol

[@dclarkmusic]

Greedy Rick I think he would get bored in about 30 seconds.

[@shadowsmustfall1]

People wonder how I could possibly love classical and metal, but it's pretty obvious. Technical metal is deeply infused with classical elements. Metal is definitely not as musically complex as classical (then again, no other genre of music is), but the elements are definitely there.

[@mathieumeneray2990]

I love metal too, I'm not much into classical music, but I totally agree that Classical music and metal have so much similarities

[@TFDwolf]

I get the feeling that you two would love 'In Fear and Faith'.

[@areyouavinalaughisheavinal5328]

well the scales and modes used in metal and rock are typically the same as used in classical... that's why blues, jazz, hiphop sound nothing like classical...different scales and modes.

[@areyouavinalaughisheavinal5328]

take randy rhoads for instance, classically trained guitarist and one of the very best, if not the best, metal guitarist to have lived. it's the way the music is structured. classical and metal use the same tricks.

[@vZZenn]

Ya but once you get into technical metal it is almost directly classically influenced and composed in almost the same way. Different than rock and classic heavy metal

[@macaron3141592653]

This is also a great example of why people today like heavy metal, and people react to that as they did to beethoven back then,

[@handicapitation3250]

If I could go back in time, I would invent the mosh pit at a Beethoven concert.

[@VasilBelezhkov]

Some of his contemporary people said if you never heard Beethoven improvising on the piano you didn't listen to anything yet.

[@CzornyLisek]

Mozart, Paganini, Liszt and other well known music stars had mosh pits. Human behaviour in that matter didn't rly changed ;P

[@handicapitation3250]

Dreambro1 Most metal uses Minor scales as well.

[@departedfetus9148]

In your lifetime time travel will be invented and you will use it to go back in time and create moshing

[@ermonski]

Nothing says civilized than a wall of death in a full orchestra concert. OPEN UP THE PIT

[@Userjdanon]

the crowd seems to be very quiet. I find this Ted Talk very informative

[@dinopad10]

I'd be quiet with jokes like his too...

[@jacemcpherson8625]

I thought the same, but I think they aren't mic'd up, so it's hard to hear them if they laugh (unless it gets loud at the end, for instance)

[@Fez8745]

Because i believe the Audience is mostly School age Children and young Adults, Under Supervision by teachers to stay quiet.

[@MrLBDude]

His audience is much younger than he is, and probably average kids, as in not musicians. I can imagine many texts going out complaining of being bored. Sad but true. It was a waste of time to try to get me to appreciate classical music until I was in my thirties. Also sad but true.

[@XantheNowicz]

Beiber fans obviously.

[@rawr3122]

It's also evident in moonlight sonata 3rd movement...

[@rawr3122]

yep :)

[@pedroakjr2371]

It gives me the chills every time...

[@davidpardy]

There's a guy who's done a really good lead guitar interpretation and that's what first made me realise that Beethoven had managed to write a song perfect for electric guitar a couple of hundred years before it even existed!

[@Todesnuss]

Do you mean Dr. Viossy?

[@skeletonrowdie1768]

nice! i didn't think so many people would think this too!

[@MissEnjoylife]

I realized this exactly last year that in music class I wasn't taught how to understand music, what I should hear... We listened to the classic composers just for the sake of knowing them, we had no idea WHY they were great composers. So this talk is just simply great with all the demonstrations :)

[@trip.le.threat]

Amon Janus Have you learned everything you know without a teacher? Also, aren't there things you won't know even EXIST unless someone explains them to you?

[@najrenchelf2751]

If you want to know why the great composers are great, there's a channel called "Inside the Score" here on KZbin that is worthy to check out. :)

[@justarandomguy9021]

Beethoven, Deaf Metal star xD

[@steveeatthesun2540]

good one !

[@andrewwheeldon3957]

Haha, i see what you did there!

[@Evan0614]

Too soon :((

[@colemcleod941]

A lot of Metal stars eventually end up deaf.

[@dorkyporky8477]

To the top!

[@blackie75]

I don't think that was arrogant at all, it was the truth and nothing more.

[@OLR1337]

Mox_au arrogance is always truth in some minds

[@blackie75]

you're a poet Harry

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

Not in some minds. The term arrogance means that you know (not only think you know) that you are better in something or have greater knowledge about something than others and showing it.

[@matthewdmiller4335]

Ivo Sigma but you can be arrogant regardless of genuine competencies. if we imagine the idea that perception is your reality than it is fathomable that arrogance stems from a reality that differs from the one we experience. arrogance marks overconfidence but what may be overconfident to one may be justified not only to the one executing the act in question but to even a separate casual onlooker. this leaves overconfidence is a pergatory, intangible it means nothing more than what we decide it means and much like so many things is nothing but a human born concept which only holds merit should the general consensus agree with it.

[@hippojuice23]

Mox_au A fantastic quote for any great artist for all time!

[@scotchwhisky6094]

It may sound dull on piano, but from an orchestra it's an absolute marvel!

[@derycktrahair8108]

My best teacher taught about TEMPO. She said that today, everyone tries to play in a frantic way to impress. She said "SLOW DOWN, hear the silence between the notes. Don't be a virtuoso. Be a musician".

[@MrDw44]

It's nice to see Harry Potter doing some other activities other then magic after Hogwarts.

[@dariusduesentrieb]

he definififlidily would have been a better cast that daniel redcliff

[@jdavis417]

No... they obviously found a way to clone Peter Brady! ;)

[@mikeferry3391]

Dane Wagner It's ....other THAN magic.....

[@nickdobrov]

And being a corpse that saves a man that got stranded on an island.

[@laurelieirvine8001]

Terry Pratchett once wrote that you can either do magic or do music, but you can't do both. Glad to know that Harry Potter made the best decision.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

If only the guy had an electric guitar, I think his sanity would've been spared. He wanted a bigger sound than a symphony orchestra could provide. He wanted *more* and *bigger* sound. The guy would've been right at home playing guitar for Metallica or something.

[@Shigellosis]

we need beethovencore in this world

[@Zalemones1]

sorry but if you think there is something in this world that sounds louder and bigger the symphony orchestras you've been hearing the wrong orchestras, i say this as a violinist and bassist for 13 years haha

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Zalemones1 So, you've been hearing it right from inside it then. A single Marshall half stack could blow away any orchestra in volume but as far as big sound goes, an electric guitar with the gain cranked is about as big as one can get. I'm not putting down the symphony orchestra. It's just that one can only go so far with it. I played viola in my high school strings orchestra. Admittedly, that's not the same thing by any stretch but I have heard orchestras. I've also been to band practice with a Marshall half stack. You have to put cotton or something in your ears. Please no viola jokes. I've heard them already.

[@benjaminclifton6775]

Coming from a guy who has played full stacks in a doom band. Nothing was as loud and as intense as hearing the royal philharmonic live. Get bent chump. All instruments have a key part in music.

[@Zalemones1]

Paul TheSkeptic gotta agree with you on that haha the power of amplification is something to be reckoned with, and i will spare you from my viola jokes :P

[@maeb9131]

does he djent?

[@garybradshaw2033]

aMaeb

[@garybradshaw2033]

gzk

[@darknomad5600]

Epic.

[@GRATES]

Actually, he does :D check grosse fuge

[@afonsotopa9164]

A man of culture, I see...

[@indycarr3964]

What a great presentation, nice job! Makes me have a whole new appreciation for Beethoven!

[@henriknykvist]

Someone please tune that piano.

[@MsMesem]

and the reverb is awful, why does he destroy his playing?

[@MsMesem]

Perhaps but as it is a community piano there might be a local tuner who would be willing to do the job for a moderated price (I thought community thinking and acting was what TED was all about).

[@amihere383]

so I wasn't alone!

[@Velostigmat]

Sounds like a consumer grade baby grand. Pity, he deserves a nicer instrument.

[@badasunicorn6870]

I don't even have relative pitch, and I noticed

[@Fr3akymet4l]

Metal is just an absolutw underrated genre. There are soo many new things in music history like extreme dissonances and weird rhythms or the different sounds from e guitars or drums and new singing styles. But you never talk about it in school. Never. And that's fuckin' sad.

[@knalltuete97]

Fr3akymet4l I have a music teacher (grammar school in germany) who actually is too qualificated for his Job. Anyway we spoke about heavy metal.\m/ :D

[@Fr3akymet4l]

knalltuete97 Geil! Meiner wusste auch was growlen ist, als jemand mal was von A day to remember vorgestellt hat, hat er ganz genau erklärt, wie der gutturale Gesang funktioniert :D Aber es ist nicht selten, dass Musiklehrer Metal hören, nehme ich mal an. Ist ja durchaus interessant und komplex \m/

[@ovrava]

Do you have any interesting examples of interesting rythms, harmony or melodies in metal?

[@Fr3akymet4l]

ovrava Try some Dillinger Escape Plan. It's Mathcore so the rhythm is veeeery confuse. They also have Jazz influences like in the song ''One of us is the Killer''. You can find weird harmonies in progressive metal. Try some Mastodon and concentrate on their riffs.

[@electronicaids6096]

ovrava Cacophony was a very great band. To poor they released just 2 albums.

He bases the entire talk on some of Bernstein's sayings, which are, by the way, very arguable. Not only the form and structure is great, he also wrote extremely beautiful and singable melodies, and complex harmonies. And he was not unaccepted by tje public his whole life: near to the end he was very popular, and people recognized him as the greastest composer alive. I like the comparisson with rock and heavy metal, because indeed Beethoven had that rebelious and rule-breaking spirit.

[@austindorf83]

His passion and dedication is amazing. Great speaker as well

[@LucasFerreira-tg1fb]

I absolutely love the second movement of the 7th symphony, ain't no way this is boring to me.

[@carloslamasdeoliveira1347]

Wow!!! It's really a great speech, full of light, strength and knowledge. Congrats, my Maestro!

[@AA-mk7yn]

baethoven

[@SomeoneCommenting]

Just imagine the music that Mozart or Beethoven could have composed if they could have edited scores in a tablet, used synthesizers to create new sounds and musical effects. The possibilities are endless. Having at hand all the editing tools of a sound engineering studio. They would have gone mad with creativity. One piece after another in a matter of just days. They already had all the music in their heads, they only needed to pour it out as fast as possible.

[@Doppe1ganger]

Good music by true artists captures a feeling, tells a story, creates an atmosphere... It doesn't matter how complex or simple it is, or what instruments you use, Beethoven was a genius, not because he uses three notes or a simple melody or intricate composition, but because he marvellously tells a story and in a new way.

[@MrMrHotDog0303]

Doppe1ganger yes I can't agree more. Although this is something metal music lacks, the ability to create a story without having to use lyrics

[@pixelshady6143]

listen to 'To live is to die' by metallica it can kinda tell a story without using lyrics

[@MrMrHotDog0303]

Pixelshady then what is the story in To Live is to die

[@SavatageIsMyReligion]

You lack knowledge of good metal bands

[@predatedapollo1784]

Alex Barbella the story in to live is to can be interpreted as a man living a depressed life or a corrupt life with the heavy parts being his physical more open suffering and the acoustic parts as his suffering more mentally (thats my opinion in a sense)

[@superDavid12341]

actually, its thrash metal *adjust glasses and snorts*

[@thepotatoof4219]

Metalheads: SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!! Slayer: BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@thetooginator153]

Hey! He dissed the Seventh Symphony! Blasphemy! That one is beautiful (well, they all are in their own ways). That was a great talk! The speaker is absolutely right. The movie "Immortal Beloved" touches on the idea that Beethoven's music was considered almost obscene. Fortunately, powerful women (and many men) at the time understood Beethoven's genius. I would have probably been as shocked as anyone if I went to a concert expecting something melodious and familiar. I didn't know Beethoven's would furiously cross out whole stanzas! That's especially amazing knowing that Beethoven couldn't test the stanza because he was deaf! He could just "see" that he didn't like it. Well, if anyone deserved to be egotistical and arrogant, Beethoven did.

[@wphb66]

Very enjoyable talk and puts the music in historical context. Thank you!

[@johnwentz2149]

Good talk, although I wish he could have explained how similar use of motific development is the driving force behind some of metal's most classic works.

[@ross8138]

Alienart Master of puppets?

[@wardka]

Points well made, Ross Cooke and John Wentz. Someday I'll learn not to make rash generalizations in public forums. I should clarify that I'm drawn to metal that repeats a riff more so than develops it, so naturally I would think most of it does simply repeat. Even though I'm well familiar with Master of Puppets, it never occurred to me those riffs mutate over the course of the piece, and I'm not familiar with Morbid Angel. I will check them out and listen with the same level of focus I give to "classical." It's hard though when the riff gets into your limbic system and takes over.

[@briguyhackins]

best thing I have watched for a long time

[@Felipemelazzi]

This TED was 15min long?! It felt like 5min

[@HarDiMonPetit]

The theme of the slow movement of the 7th is probably one of the most powerful incantations ever spelled! Poor Lady G.didn't even imagine to be compared to such a Titan!

[@sandramilenarosalessilva8748]

I loved this video, It's amazing how Beethoven created these beautiful symphonies! Bravo!!!

[@fredericellis4540]

Good talk! Instructive and well crafted!!!

[@borgtennis]

Yes yes yes! You got it! I'm teaching Beethoven's 3rd symphony as music appreciation, and it is loud and in your face with massive chords!

[@elisayazidi1846]

Amazing! Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work

[@frogmouth]

Very engaging thankyou Nicholas. I now have some understanding of why the favourite composer of my youth was so criticised in his time

[@ALoonwolf]

Beethoven: "Yes, that sounds quite satisfying." Everybody else: "MUCH. TOO. LOUD."

[@eugenedanker2377]

The second movement of the 7th is my favorite

[@EggChen6DemonBag]

This guy seems like a really cool and down to earth person. I really admire people with such musical talent.

[@halloooo1duuuuu]

great talk! I have the feeling he really understands the essence of Beethoven's compositions!

[@hbsupermage]

i think Beethoven was like heavy metal, and Bach like death metal

[@jeffreymerrill7667]

other way around brother. lol metal is influenced by Beethoven because everyone is influenced by him

[@jeffreymerrill7667]

other way around brother. lol metal is influenced by Beethoven because everyone is influenced by him

[@AreEnTee]

And Paganini was Shred guitar

[@pavimaris]

I haven't thought about Unreal Tournament in over a decade

[@jrexx2841]

Mozart was the pop star guy

[@edanmendelson3274]

this is a wonderful talk!!!

[@rikosborne1212]

I loved the comment about learning to LISTEN to music. I spent decades feverishly practicing my bass guitar, trying to perfectly learn to play all of my favorite songs. Then, a few years ago, I realized I was in something of a rut. I put my instrument aside for the most part, and started to just LISTEN to a lot of different music. Just listen, discover, and learn. It's made a huge difference.

[@MikeyLovesLife]

wow - what a talented guy, the keyboard skills are very impressive! I love his view on things from that era and how it translated and has influenced modern music.

[@TheUltraGamer98]

I really enjoyed that speech

[@blinkforme5726]

Classical music + distortion = metal

[@fakshen1973]

Building complex structures out of simple components is always the golden achievement of any type of creative engineering.

[@gnarman1358]

Love this dudes passion when playing the piano

[@stevekirkham5193]

"there is only one Beethoven" You must admit, he WAS right.

[@absurdious]

they tried to make a sequel, but judging by rotten tomatoes, nobody liked it...

[@milograamans2]

Whoever mixed the audio on the recording should have made an attempt to get rid of the echo on the piano.

[@vwkaferman]

Bravo! Great vid and presentation

[@RamonThomas]

Thank you for reminding me about Beethoven

[@lpsp442]

Good video game music tends to follow Beethoven's principles. Establish a theme or motif, and then expand and explore from there.

[@harrykinomoto]

So true!

[@BlackStarXx11xX]

Exactly why I admire game music and prog rock/metal

[@BlackStarXx11xX]

Exactly why I admire game music and prog rock/metal

[@FMHeatSink]

Before Cellos on Fire was even born there was Apocalyptica playing Metallica on cello.

[@hedgehog1965uk]

Yeah, they released a whole album and they weren't using electro-acoustic either.

[@VFizz]

Probably the best TED Talk I've ever seen!!

[@fabianhidalgo8591]

I always thought the same, love the passion of this guy when explaining.

[@dandandy1863]

Building a whole work of music about one musical idea? Reminds me of Meshuggah's Catch 33

[@elsenoryo6467]

QUE FANTÁSTICO ACENTO. EXELENTE DICCIÓN. ES MUY FÁCIL ENTENDERLE. TODOS LOS MÚSICOS QUE HABLAN EN PÚBLICO DEBERÍAN EXPRESARSE DE ÉSA MANERA.

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

Finally a good proper talk from TedX@Youth that I see!

[@sudiptosaha7467]

This one is definitely going to be one of my favourite Ted talk

[@maristoldboys5466]

Roll over Beethoven. Rock me Amadeus.

[@beyondthetitans4170]

Some of Lady Gaga's more obscure pieces are very skillfully written.

[@jacquiline605]

I can feel all his slight changes no matter how small, the emotion is great. Always loved Beethoven. He will always be the greatest rockstar of his time!

[@GalaxyLPSTVOfficialChannel]

This is such an interesting video! I never really knew it before, but I think I have always subconsciously wanted to know more about music. Love this! :D

[@gberndt4music]

Interesting history lesson!

[@jasoli1749]

I pity beethoven he didnt get to hear even his own master pieces

[@cellogirl11rw55]

BreadnButterJohnski He sure can hear them now! 😁

[@perezsounds]

But the empty void of nothingness cant reproduce sound...

[@franzjosephliszt1555]

He sure could hear his master pieces. He didn't go completely deaf until after his music career.

[@DavidvdGulik]

Johnathon Shakovitz Beethoven was completely deaf by about 1819, after which he still wrote dozens of works, particularly up to about 1924

[@franzjosephliszt1555]

So Beethoven was over a hundred years old? He died in 1827 muchacho

[@lyovmyshkin7561]

Many thanks to this young man for providing this instructive and interesting lecture.

[@QUACKLEZAD]

great speech and just love listening to his voice!

[@ProJatior]

Would Mozart be the Iron Maiden of the day? Is there a more accurate band to compare him to?

[@lucjicare]

ProJatior fleshgod apocalypse?^^

[@metalcorefan93]

YES, Fleshgod Apocalypse is an excellent comparison in my eyes.

[@spyros5000]

A heavy band would be comparable.

[@dualcarnage7299]

Lifelover Meh Apocalypse is not metal like Iron Maiden

[@MrMrHotDog0303]

ProJatior beethoven cannot be compared to anyone because no one today is at all as incredible and genius as Beethoven

[@TransformsIntoAGuitar]

An interesting bit of history about BeethOven but the title was misleading. I thought there would be more about the tempestuousness of his music.

[@bicyclist2]

WOW! I wish I could play the piano that good. Thanks.

[@kkampy4052]

The 2nd movement of the 7th makes me cry every time I hear it.

[@Kyrelel]

I could actually feel my will to live seeping out through my shoes while watching this.

[@AdamWoodhams]

Why?

[@TheVeritableQuandary]

Adam Woodhams Presentation and subject matter. Both were poor.

[@thothheartmaat2833]

Chopin is heavy metal. doom metal.

[@samdeegan7438]

Maathiu Ra Yin debussy bro 👌

[@thothheartmaat2833]

Sam Blake i eat Debussy... 😗

[@kudagenit]

Maathiu Ra Yin Chopin is prog dude.

[@thothheartmaat2833]

Fadhil Nugraha HE IS ALL OF THESE THINGS!!!

[@ksilveira]

Wagner is power metal.

[@dalealldredge6369]

very good job on showing the genius of Beethoven........

[@yomeyo6622]

First time I heard or saw this man, Nicolas Ellis... and I must say, I'm impressed.

[@AntonDoesMusic]

When you take classical music and mix it with rock or metal, you get prog. Ask any prog musician. They list classical or jazz music as one of their influences.

[@ilhamdinzaz]

AntonDoesMusic I'm more to Progressive Djent.

[@intergalacticspacecanoe4659]

aka furiously closeted meshuggah-emulation, lul

[@dualcarnage7299]

Symphony X, Ayreon, Rush, Yes, Animals As Leaders, Dream Theater...

[@MegaDocjoe]

I becomes closer to neocalssical instead, think of Malmsteen , Michael Romeo of symphony X (as guitarist not the band)

[@martinkrauser4029]

I have to appreciate how a classical conductor can't play a one note pop tune as soon as its syncopated.

[@frantiseksmetana9640]

In next school year I will be student of Conservatory. I need to thank you for your presentation, I remembered why I love so much classicial music and why I wanted to go to Conservatory.

[@erick-gd7wo]

i like how he explains his ideas, i tend to so much agree to his idea.

[@amycroft7545]

For a second there, I thought I was listening to Apocalyptica!!

[@danielm793]

Master! Master!

[@leapsplashafrog]

Fascinating thanks

[@1956Caddy]

Great presentation.

[@JoseRobledo]

So Tommy Iommi, Lemmy Kilmister, Steve Harris, Dave Mustaine, James Hetfield among others are the greteast genius of music of the 20th century? I wish I could time travel and see how Music schools would look like in 200 years, "today we are going to learn a masterpiece: Painkiller".

[@DarrenNoFun]

Wait wait wait... He claims that his band Cello's on Fire is original and creative... They are LITERALLY doing what Apocalyptica does, just with a keyboardist and a guitarist you can hardly hear. And i don't mean, they are putting a new spin on that Apocalyptica song that put a new spin on Metallica's Master Of Puppets... they are literally playing Apocalyptica's Master of Puppets... I thought the whole talk was leading up to that Irony, but i never did.

[@TankTaur]

I was thinking the same thing: "Oh, Apocalyptica! No? okay, I hope he at least mentions them". He didn't.

[@teemunator]

Yes. Apocalyptica is original on that genre.

[@hazardeur]

@@teemunator Yeah well, it's a cover band with different intstruments. breathtakingly creative and original huh

[@edanmendelson3274]

thank you Nicolas!

[@annamcuthbert3993]

interesting . very good chat and music .

[@matthewwhitehouse301]

The majority of most Mozart and Haydn symphonies started with loud chords (Mozart- symphony no28, 34, 41, 39 etc) this style of approach in terms of starting a symphony was not new in the 19th century, in fact it was more appropriate than not to not start a symphony with a loud tutti chord. The example he gave with the 40th symphony is a very poor one indeed, Symphony no40 is one of very few Mozart symphonies where Mozart opens the symphony with a quiet melody etc. A lot of the information given here is just historically informative.

[@laydbakk1]

It's interesting how he draws a similar parallel between Lady Gaga's genius of simplicity along with Beethoven's... If Ludwig van Beethoven had had a producer, recording studio, and dance choreographer to do his music, he would've been the Father of Rock Pop way before anyone even knew what it was...

[@whitneysmiltank]

That's not what he's saying. Lady gaga do not build on those simple melodies, but good composers (like Beethoven) do.

[@MrMrHotDog0303]

laydbakk1 there is no genius of simplicity that doesn't make any sense

[@ricomajestic]

Actually there was a disco hit back in the 70's that sampled Beethoven's 5th. Go check it out. It was a hit for Walter Murphy!

[@whitneysmiltank]

@Alex Barbella: It makes total sense though. Look, pop music is a bad example for genius of simplicity because if you listen to those songs over and over, you'll grow sick of them. Admittedly, I don't listen to the so-called pop music because I grow sick of them after the first listen but I do listen to a lot of classical and metal. There are a lot of simple melodies in classical, but it's how the song is structured that makes it a complex work, but there are still very simple things in the piece where the addition of it all makes it a fully fledged work. In metal, there is a band called Darkthrone which has a song in particular that is 6 minutes but the whole song only has 2 simple riffs that never changes. What is amazing here is how they made those 2 very simple riffs and played over and over again in the song and they never get boring. I've been listening to this song for years and it never ever gets old even though the song is as simple as it can get. So as I was saying, YES there is genius in simplicity, and I just explained two different examples as to why it makes sense. Cheers!

[@joeakajoe1]

@@MrMrHotDog0303 genius is very often simplicity. That's why when people experience it they wonder why they didn't think of it themselves. A lot of music can be very complex but meaningless

[@6strings735]

Just happened on this now - very interesting. I always thought there was similarity in phrasing between some heavy metal riffs and classical music. Beethoven was always my favorite classical composer.. I really didn't know why until now.

[@PhSyCo-B-oCh]

Yess, one of my many favorites is Fur Elise. I love Beethoven's music, it is very moving, intence and soothing at the same time.

[@BobBob-lr5re]

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[@lmbtcs1879]

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[@TotalRookie_LV]

Sometimes when listening to Visvaldi, I hear riffs of rock music. Of course classic music was here first. And I have no idea what his personality was like. P.S. Doesn't repetitiveness and lack of harmonics show Beethoven more as punk-rock musician, than a heavy metal one?

[@stugeh]

Punk lacks the melodies though

[@georgewiegers5262]

Wonderful explanation

[@kiankapil]

I already figured this out and have all of Beethoven in my collection alongside lots of heavy metal

[@eavening4149]

is it my phone, or does that piano sound horribly twangy?

[@danielthompson5785]

It's cuz he's slamming the keys a little too hard

[@davidpardy]

It's your phone. Judging audio quality on a phone speaker is always going to end in tears

[@davidpardy]

He definitely hit a number of bad notes, but to be honest I don't think there's much point judging the recorded quality of the audio. His vocal mic also has a harsh quality - so I would put the quality of the recording down to the recording or the way everything has been mixed and/or mic'd on the night. But don't forget that recording in a live venue is a totally different animal to recording in a studio. I also have a high-end audio system on my computer, just FYI. But all that being said, my original point still stands: Don't judge audio quality based on a phone speaker!

[@TheBassBarbarian]

The piano was being picked up by multiple mics so sounded delayed and weird

[@qwertz12345654321]

terrible acoustic and recording