Posted on 03/25/2017 6:45:56 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Why not ask *him*?
Strange, when I listen to any music all I hear is music (good or bad). Most on this thread instead hear a Freudian recount of the composer’s couch session.
Critical theory, deconstruction, seems to destroy everything it touches.
How do you fit yourself into that narrow mind?
Yes, that seems to be the judgement of history. Especially the "uninventive" part. "Too many notes"...</sarc>
There’s plenty of room:)
Isn't it amazing how many people can read something
that is obviously sarcastic irony and comment on it
as if it's totally serious?
Guess I'll just have to tag everything..... (sigh).
That is not Mozart.
That is a faggot actor in a blatantly false Hoolywood movie.
well played... well played indeed!
LOL!!! just damn... /snort
Let’s hear some of your obviously far superior work.
:)
Why doesn’t the author respond to anyone after posting his screed? He fired a shot and then seemed to run away.
LOL!
"The ungodly arch-villain, Voltaire, has died like a dog. I have always had God before my eyes… Friends who have no religion cannot long be my friends." ~ Mozart
God has often chosen imperfect instruments. David comes to mind. As you know it's not the instrument, but the musician, and God played Mozart like a Stradivarius. The evidence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvvk7ZG1IZw
For the general public, sure. There was also the bicentennial of his death back in 1991 which meant a lot of reissued albums, and the "Mostly Mozart" festivals which have been going on for decades.
Behind all that, though, was a post-WWII revulsion against romanticism. The feeling was that Mozart had been unfairly maligned as shallow and mechanical, and now he was going to be celebrated as a spirit of lightness, grace, delicacy, and wit. In a way, he fits into (aspects of) the postmodernist aesthetic.
I prefer Beethoven, too, but I can understand people's being fed up with the mythology of the artist-titan with his powerful emotions. One thing that was pointed out to me was that Mozart also, in his own way was something of a revolutionary, though his innovations have been well assimilated by later artists.
And so I learned. Much later on. But it was that movie that is mostly responsible for making me a fan of classical music. Up to that point, my music collection ran mostly from Aerosmith to Van Halen. But that movie featured some amazing music that I started exploring further. In a few years time, I had quite a collection of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart and starting to discover the next tier of composers like Handel, Monteverdi and Schubert. I also started exploring other genres of music like jazz and blues.
It was later on that I realized "Amadeus" was an unflattering and mostly untrue portrayal of Mozart. But right or wrong, it helped me to start expanding my musical horizons.
Mozart utterly delights me.
I would disagree with that generalization. I can understand how the thunder of Beethoven is more masculine than the more elegant melodies of Mozart but a real man can appreciate both. Especially his operas, which rank among the highest forms of that art. If you are looking for girl music, I do find the music of Chopin quite lightweight and feminine however. Sounds like the music-box my sister had when we were kids.
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