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What is some classical music you find underrated?
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August 3rd, 2010
We all know the big Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach pieces, but what is some classical music that you think is underrated?
In my opinion, some of the most underrated classical music is the ballets of Leo Delibes, including Coppelia, Sylvia, and La Source. While Coppelia is performed with some frequency, the “complete ballet” repertoire is dominated by Tchaikovsky’s ballets for the most part. Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet is also popular. Those are all great, but I don’t like how composers like Minkus, Delibes, and Glazunov are sometimes overlooked in the ballet world.
Sylvia is one of the greatest works of classical music ever written in my opinion and the only part people know is the Pizzicati part that was in Loony Tunes and Taco Bell commercials. The ballet wasn’t performed in the United States until 2004. It just…amazes me…
I’m always looking for new classical to get, so what’s something underrated that isn’t performed often that I might not have heard of?
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