With such a rich and popular type of music, of course the debate as to who are the best classical music composers rages on even to this day. A sea of contradiction and conjecture confuses even the most dedicated music buffs. Of course, the question is largely one of personal taste.
It goes without saying that Mozart is for many the beginning and end of the debate. It is hard to deny that the Austrian genius demonstrated a touch and imagination for treating music as an extension of his brain rather than a sound independent of himself. This in turn make the listener an extension of him.
Many see Mozart as a little too obvious however, his quest for perfection is sometimes to the detriment of individuality; since everybody knows and likes Mozart, he is in a way the Spielberg of his art.
Next we receive a broadside from Beethoven, his overwrought and joyously melancholy pieces of work can cause conflicting emotions of melancholy and elation to leave the listener literally paralyzed in conflict. Like a hamster given a human brain, our systems can be simply overloaded by the German's peerless command of crescendo and building.
Germany seems to dominate many lists of best classical composers, Chopin and Strauss are also two names that are always thrown into this particular hat. Although Chopin on the surface often appears to be more flyaway and upbeat than his peers, often avoiding serious analysis, those who take the trouble can find an unnerving almost sexual element in his violin sections, an uncontrollable brooding satyr like animal element in his horn section.
Strauss is seen as the master of the Waltz, most famously the one from the film about spaceships. Search deeply into the melody and you will hear a slightly subversive structure for those who know, perhaps a forewarning of the cataclysmic events of the 20th century in Germany and the dangers of nationalism and loss of individuality.
The Russian Tchaikovsky also offers a sonic assault on the complacency of intellectual life. His rollercoaster rides of pain, anguish, love, an almost schizophrenic self examination create a soaring hymn not only to truth, but also to the lies in which truth is so often wrapped, like the very cloth that keeps us warm as infants brought screaming into this world in a overture of blood and emotion.
The best classical music composers are not hiding, they are not bowed, they are singing from the stereos and mp3 players of the modern world, they live on through every sheet of music and plucked violin in the world.
It goes without saying that Mozart is for many the beginning and end of the debate. It is hard to deny that the Austrian genius demonstrated a touch and imagination for treating music as an extension of his brain rather than a sound independent of himself. This in turn make the listener an extension of him.
Many see Mozart as a little too obvious however, his quest for perfection is sometimes to the detriment of individuality; since everybody knows and likes Mozart, he is in a way the Spielberg of his art.
Next we receive a broadside from Beethoven, his overwrought and joyously melancholy pieces of work can cause conflicting emotions of melancholy and elation to leave the listener literally paralyzed in conflict. Like a hamster given a human brain, our systems can be simply overloaded by the German's peerless command of crescendo and building.
Germany seems to dominate many lists of best classical composers, Chopin and Strauss are also two names that are always thrown into this particular hat. Although Chopin on the surface often appears to be more flyaway and upbeat than his peers, often avoiding serious analysis, those who take the trouble can find an unnerving almost sexual element in his violin sections, an uncontrollable brooding satyr like animal element in his horn section.
Strauss is seen as the master of the Waltz, most famously the one from the film about spaceships. Search deeply into the melody and you will hear a slightly subversive structure for those who know, perhaps a forewarning of the cataclysmic events of the 20th century in Germany and the dangers of nationalism and loss of individuality.
The Russian Tchaikovsky also offers a sonic assault on the complacency of intellectual life. His rollercoaster rides of pain, anguish, love, an almost schizophrenic self examination create a soaring hymn not only to truth, but also to the lies in which truth is so often wrapped, like the very cloth that keeps us warm as infants brought screaming into this world in a overture of blood and emotion.
The best classical music composers are not hiding, they are not bowed, they are singing from the stereos and mp3 players of the modern world, they live on through every sheet of music and plucked violin in the world.
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