The composition is nice, but what really do it for me is the historical perspective.

When this piece was written, we are still in Dutch Melaka era, around the time of Stadthuys construction.

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Not nostagia, but the difference in civilization progression.
When we were in period of our sultan tikam menikam over sepak raga kena tanjak etc,
European people are already making such a significant things like this.
Ottoman was at its height of its power. Janissaries still marching around.

Remember this piece existed like century or half even before Mozart were born.
Where were we in 1925?


Also really makes you think of how retarded all these melayu invent this and that claims by those Facebook professors.

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I guess you just have to read a lot and start connecting, even better if use Malaysia history as reference point. its really worth it.
I did made some relative events timeline for my sejarah spm tutor class, but it mostly about the events covered by our spm silibus.

Piano was a quite recent invention. But I know for sure is that when the piece was written, it was originally played with violins and some other strings. String quartet version probably close enough that you commonly hear (not exactly since the original one was in 3 violin).
something like this


(at some point decade ago I got obsessed with learning keyboard and study lots about it and become somewhat classical music nerd lol)

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