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Even funnier because there was an actual classical period, but most of what is called classical isn’t from that period. Beethoven is basically the dividing lin
by TylerE 4y ago
Even funnier because there was an actual classical period, but most of what is called classical isn’t from that period.
Beethoven is basically the dividing line between line between the classical and the Romantic period that followed it.
Bach and Vivaldi were from the earlier Baroque period.
Mozart and Haydn were from the classical.
The bulk of what most people listen to is the romantic period, which runs from roughly around Beethoven’s 3rd to around 1900. That gets you Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Rachmanoff, Nielsen, Bruckner, Mahler.
- AlbertCory 4y agoHistorical accuracy is not the ticket for broader acceptance. If they want to think anything with violins is "classical" let's just go with it.
- jaggederest 4y agoNodding, over here with my Bluegrass playlists.
- AlbertCory 4y agoItzhak Perlman proudly called himself a "fiddler" to reinforce that he's doing the same thing as klezmer musicians. Yo-Yo Ma plays with non-traditional musicians, too. So yeah; violin and cello don't make it "classical."
- vintermann 4y agoI like classical music. I like listening to the music of people who lived hundreds of years ago. I try to understand what they were trying to say. I try to connect with them on a human level across the centuries, to their joys and sorrows. But what's even greater, is living traditions. Which carry much of that history, but are very much alive themselves, and not operating on someone's official approval for the "right" way to do it. And bluegrass, and the wider style of American music which I like to call "Prairie Home Companion Fusion" (I never listened to that old radio show, but I found out a ton of music I love was connected to it) - it totally is one of those wonderful, living traditions.