per aspera sic itur ad astra
violentwavesofemotion

From the manuscript of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata in A, Op. 47, with extensive revisions by himself as well as by his pupil Ferdinand Ries (x)

25746 Friday, 3 years ago
clavierissimo

F. Chopin, autograph manuscript quotation of the Étude op.25 no.1, 1844.

3335 Saturday, 3 years ago
violentwavesofemotion

From the manuscript of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata in A, Op. 47, with extensive revisions by himself as well as by his pupil Ferdinand Ries (x)

25746 Sunday, 3 years ago
clavierissimo

C. Schumann, autograph musical quotation from Trois romances op.11 no.1, 1840.

3899 Sunday, 3 years ago
draconismalfoi

autumn | soft songs to warm up a chilly heart. [listen]

114 Wednesday, 3 years ago

concept playlists;

winterblues

you’re lying on mossy forest floors, slowly transforming into a nymph, your fingers are turning into flower vines, your limbs are bleeding honey & growing thick skins of sepia bark, wings sprout in between your shoulder blades. your breath sounds like the wind. fireflies litter the air above you

you’re hold up in an abandoned church, outside there’s a raging storm & a horde of zombies roaming around, pressing up against the entrance doors. you & a small band of survivors are staying inside for the night in hopes to ride the bad weather out. you take first watch & listen to these tunes on an old ipod while everyone else tries to get some rest & the undead crawl outside, awaiting the taste of human flesh.

you’re in your boyfriend’s pickup. he’s asleep in the passenger seat, you’re driving without a destination in mind & you have the window down as you let the cool night air whip against your face in a state of pleasant delirium

you’re on a rooftop somewhere, there’s 5 am air on your skin, streetlights glint like coins at the bottom of wishing wells from where you sit. you’re feeling peaceful for the first time all week

you’re lying in the middle of a crop circle forty miles from your grandma’s old house waiting for aliens to come and abduct you

it’s four pm in the afternoon and you’ve got your head in the lap of the only boy you’ve ever loved & you’re reading jane eyre & he’s sipping on tea & it’s the kind of weather where it’s just warm enough for you to pretend it’s summer & it’s drizzling & you’re listening to the rain beat softly against the windowpanes

you’re curled up in bed as it pours outside, there’s a citywide blackout and the last candle you had left has finally blown out, but you feel strangely at peace within the warm, all-consuming dark

you’re making out in the bathroom of a house party with someone that makes you feel like you’ve swallowed the sun

you’re standing amidst a city you burned to the ground. the apocalypse has come & gone. all that’s left is ashes & mortar & sad bones but you’re feeling empowered. a slow smile creeps up your lips as you realize how you’ve always wanted to watch the world burn

you wander into wonderland and now you’re suddenly being crowned fairie queen, apparently there’s a prophecy waiting to be fulfilled 

it’s mid morning but it’s dark outside from the rain. you thought the tapping on the window was from the rain but it’s actually a crow that flickers out of sight when you look directly at it

you’re sipping on cherry cola by the pool on a lazy sunday & you’re feeling younger than you’ve ever been

you’re summoning old ghosts in an abandoned parking lot on a smoggy thursday night

87541 Friday, 3 years ago
swanlaike

— Swan Lake, Op. 20 (insp.)

526 Thursday, 4 years ago
scamandersnewt

D E A D   M E N   T E L L   N O   T A L E S : a fantasy alternative universe playlist for writers,                     requested by @stephbrwn

        “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.” 

+ LISTEN  

618 Wednesday, 4 years ago
lipasdua

a playlist for july  [listen]

i. hard feelings/loveless - lorde ; ii. m.o.n.e.y. - the 1975 ; iii. everybody’s watching me (uh oh) - the neighbourhood ; iv. don’t play - halsey ; v. dreams - dua lipa ; vi. radioactive - marina and the diamonds ; vii. party’s over - astrid s ; viii. don’t kill my vibe - sigrid ; vix. casanova - allie x ; x. four pink walls - alessia cara ; xi. super far - lany ; xii. summer bummer - lana del rey, a$ap rocky, playboi carti ; xiii. white roses - charli xcx ; xiv. watch - billie eilish ; xv. happy little pill - troye sivan
274 Tuesday, 4 years ago
barcarole

Last two pages of Fauré’s manuscript for La fleur qui va sur l'eau, Op. 85, No. 2, ca. 1884.

965 Friday, 4 years ago
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