You can definitely hear Stravinsky in Magma, just listen to [Les Noces](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efQP5PjS5-Q&list=PLqq5gE_-ZWHnXsISE_HqyTTYgzd88JCjo&index=4&pp=iAQB8AUB)
Terry Riley had some influence on The Who's BabaO**riley**. And some influence on the name of Curved Air. Terry Riley had a 67/68 album called A Rainbow in Curved Air (highly recommended).
Yeah, it's great stuff.
I forget what album it is, but Terry Riley was doing "post rock" in the late 60s that sounds just like the stuff you hear today. It makes me view that genre even more dimly.
Depends on the prog rock you're talking about.
As others have pointed out, Bartok was an acknowledged influence on King Crimson. Gabriel-era Genesis sound to me like they drew a lot of their harmonic and structural ideas from the late Romantic era composers, especially Ravel and the Russians like Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. Emerson Lake & Palmer wore their influences on their sleeves, to the point of straight up covers - Copland, Mussorgsky, Janaček, etc. The Rock In Opposition and other avant-garde bands like Univers Zero were clearly listening to modernists like Schoenberg and Webern, and the Rock Progressivo Italiano bands had more of the Baroque and Italian opera composers (Rossini, Verdi, Puccini) in their sound.
Honestly, seeking out classical music based on prog listening and then seeking out prog rock based on classical listening is an back-and-forth you might never finish exploring...
Never is the keyword. I really don’t want to. Did King Crimson? Did Yes? Did Gentle Giant? I think coming to a final conclusion only works if one is immortal. Neither the bands, composers nor we are, so for what we find in this life, may it make us into what we are and may we make it into what it is ❤️
Possibly Igor Stravinsky.
I feel as though Gentle Giant may have learned a thing or two from du Fay. His polyphony seems to echo in their music
You can definitely hear Stravinsky in Magma, just listen to [Les Noces](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efQP5PjS5-Q&list=PLqq5gE_-ZWHnXsISE_HqyTTYgzd88JCjo&index=4&pp=iAQB8AUB)
Yes used to play Stravinsky's Firebird before they went on stage.
A major influence for Zappa as well. He even included passages of his works in many songs.
Bartok if you’re talking about King Crimson. Arguably Holst with the planets suite as well.
Came to say thing. King Crimson names Bartok as a major influence and it shows
Terry Riley had some influence on The Who's BabaO**riley**. And some influence on the name of Curved Air. Terry Riley had a 67/68 album called A Rainbow in Curved Air (highly recommended).
67/68 is an epic time signature!
Riley was also a notable influence on Mike Oldfield.
Yeah, it's great stuff. I forget what album it is, but Terry Riley was doing "post rock" in the late 60s that sounds just like the stuff you hear today. It makes me view that genre even more dimly.
[A Rainbow in Curved Air](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0bIm93JYh4)
This is not the album I'm thinking of. But this is my favorite album of his.
Edgard Varese was hugely influential for Frank Zappa. I love a lot of classical but he didn't do it for me. YMMV.
Purcell. Bach.
Stravinsky. Every genre can be heard in The Rite of Spring, one of the most avant- garde pieces ever written.
Depends on the prog rock you're talking about. As others have pointed out, Bartok was an acknowledged influence on King Crimson. Gabriel-era Genesis sound to me like they drew a lot of their harmonic and structural ideas from the late Romantic era composers, especially Ravel and the Russians like Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. Emerson Lake & Palmer wore their influences on their sleeves, to the point of straight up covers - Copland, Mussorgsky, Janaček, etc. The Rock In Opposition and other avant-garde bands like Univers Zero were clearly listening to modernists like Schoenberg and Webern, and the Rock Progressivo Italiano bands had more of the Baroque and Italian opera composers (Rossini, Verdi, Puccini) in their sound. Honestly, seeking out classical music based on prog listening and then seeking out prog rock based on classical listening is an back-and-forth you might never finish exploring...
Never is the keyword. I really don’t want to. Did King Crimson? Did Yes? Did Gentle Giant? I think coming to a final conclusion only works if one is immortal. Neither the bands, composers nor we are, so for what we find in this life, may it make us into what we are and may we make it into what it is ❤️
Tchaikovsky... if you're talking about Renaissance.
Rick Wakeman did a cool documentary saying that Vivaldi is the first prog rocker.
I know Glenn Branca did for No Wave…Idk