Is it just me?!


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Is it just me?

I listen to a lot of classical music and enjoy the baroque period and everything Beethoven and beyond. But I seem to not enjoy the classical period (haydn , Mozart). And I feel Mozart is (sorry to offend some of you) boring. Is he just overrated as a composer? I feel composers such as Debussy, Ravel, Beethoven, Mahler, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Bhrams are better than him yet he gets his anniversary in the news and everything.

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2 days ago
hottie: I have a very open mind when it comes to music and listen to a lot of different music prog rock, classic rock, jazz, indie, ect.....


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I will answer your question and you will understand now what is really going on. You are right to feel Mozart sometimes boring, so do I, not that he hasn't written some awesome repertoire that isn't boring. A few of his sonatas for piano, the requiem, his jupiter symphony.
But, the truth of the reason is: that in his day, they were not allowed to compose music that later we hear by Brahms etc.. in Mozart's day, he had to compose pieces in major keys because socially that is what was expected and commissioned for. If you read back, you will see that he worked for royalty. The music of the day needed to be light, airy, and happy b/c it was played for high society sort of like tea time and the music had to be joyful. It was only until after Beethoven that the envelope was pushed, Beethoven defied rules and began composing music from his emotions rather then what was expected from society and the higher archy. So, Beethoven paved the way for Brahms, Tchaikovsky and the rest that later composed wild emotional, sentimental music.
The classical period stlye genre had to be light and happy type music. The brahms era - the Romantic period - is great emotional style and era of composing.

You know what's funny, us younger folk love the romantic era, and I hear that the older in age, 60s and up begin to become partial to the classical era, a transition.

Oh and PS: Brahms who is my fav composer and all the composers following Bach, Mozart, Beeth studied composition by studying the technique of these Baroque and classical era composers, in other words, todays composers learn by studying yesterday's composers. From there they move forward by adding there style and tech and emotion and making new rules. That is also the reason why we look back, because they were the initial creators, the building blocks for the later composers.


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