Top 10 Composers who were WAY ahead of their time...

Historians and musicologists try to fit musical history and it's inhabitants into strict, clearly defined categories of style, but the truth is far more complicated...

In this video I take a look at my 'top 10 composers who were WAY ahead of their time', to show that musical history is enriched - not disrupted - by the eccentricity and unpredictably of the various characters which inhabit it.

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MUSIC:

Hildegard von Bingen: Hymns and Songs (12th century)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YTOiJ-zjP0

Hildegard von Bingen - Canticles Of Ecstasy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei88J4lERbk

Carlo Gesualdo - Madrigals, Book 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEoOOYA31_E

Heinrich Biber - Battalia à 10 (1673) Voices of Music 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMVI7z5GYRU

Le Sacre du printemps / The Rite of Spring - Ballets Russes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOZmlYgYzG4

Jean Féry Rebel - Les Elemens - Petr Wagner Ensemble Tourbillon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGCQgPvUah0

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde – Vorspiel und Liebestod ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Andrés Orozco-Estrada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvUyCdKAxM

Franz Liszt - Bagatelle sans tonalité, S.216a (Gardon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_HjEa8k5k

Charles Ives, Three Places in New England - Ensemble intercontemporain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP0yMg6_Yaw

Charles Ives - Washington's Birthday (1909)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oivK3JAuRCU

BBC Proms 2019 - Schoenberg - Five Orchestral Pieces (original version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh44fnjc_bc

Proms 2016 - Gustav Holst - The Planets [Edward Gardner, National Youth Orchestra]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be7uEyyNIT4

Roomful of Teeth perform Caroline Shaw's 'Partita for 8 Voices' | Music on Main
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVMtnaB28E