The only part that bothers me is the use of a piece of music when it wasn’t written for that intended use. To clarify, to use Handel’s music ,which was mostly written for Mass, for unholy events is just wrong. I much prefer original classical music in soundtracks like Hans Zimmer’s work. The music is written to fit the movie.
Likewise, Barber’s ‘Adagio For Strings’ was written as absolute music...the slow movement of a string quartet. It always irked him that iwas used as a funeral dirge. And to top it all off...it was played at his funeral.
What was the intended use of Handel’s Water Music? Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude? Can anybody besides the Brandenburg descendants listen to Bach’s six concerti? Play Haydn’s last 12 symphonies outside of London, or Beethoven’s 6th anywhere but the primeval forest? ;-)
Beethoven’s or Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique when you’re not depressed?
I say be glad when any classical music actually gets heard anywhere.
“The part that bothers me” is the over-generalizations by the writer of the article. Bach’s cello suites (all six of them, apparently) represent menopausal grief? Good grief.
Handel’s music is mostly written for mass? That’s a new one on me.