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By debs on Jul 19, 2010 | Reply

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sorry dont like classical music its boring

By lois c on Jul 19, 2010 | Reply

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Mozart i think wrote music that ppl liked not what more serious ppl liked. i love Mozart but i think that the other musicians you taked about had to work harder on there music,mozart made it look easy

By cherry♥blossoms on Jul 23, 2010 | Reply

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well, i personally think motzart is better than beethoven, but thats just my opinion. i like his music but i dont like beethovens. it just depends on your style.

By hottie on Jul 26, 2010 | Reply

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stop listening to the old music and listen to todays music!!!!!!!!

By tm99 on Jul 27, 2010 | Reply

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Not liking Mozart’s music won’t make you less of a classical music fan. Just because Mozart’s music is greatly important doesn’t mean every person on earth has to love it. believe it or not, many of the composers you mentioned were influenced by Mozart, so there!

By fraxinus on Jul 28, 2010 | Reply

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No it isn’t just you. It always seemed to me that the most vocal of music-lovers were inclined to prefer the respectable well-recommended composers that I found ’safe’ like Handel- (now there IS safe) It made me think they heard music differently from me - they never got used to hearing Beethoven and Mozart and all the other diddle-diddle music. (The operas were the most difficult to understand why they could listen to the same old).

I like the French composers, and though I’m not French, I prefer French sung, and I love Poulenc - any Poulenc, Messiaen and Dutilleux. And Janacek and Smetena.

I’m probably a couple of generations older than you so I find Tchaik and all the Russian familiar - particularly Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition that has been played to often I am actually sick to death of it. We will probably always get tired of the usual programme music that is ‘popular’, but when you think of the size of Groves? Where are they all? Why don’t they play some of their music instead?

By ima89ercutie on Jul 29, 2010 | Reply

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I agree with you 1000% I **** mozart just about but i dont like him mainly because he didnt write a lot of minor pieces. but it seems like you like more of the romantic style so i would suggest Chopin for you he is without a doubt my favorite. you just happen to be a person who likes feeling from what i see nothing wrong with that

By Murgatroyd on Aug 1, 2010 | Reply

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Well, obviously, there is no disputing taste. Just because Mozart has a T-Rex size footprint on the history of music doesn’t mean you have to like him. I admit that some of his music leaves me fatigued. I will live a perfectly happy life if I never have to hear “Eine Klein Nachtmusic” again!

That said, I would not count him out of your musical life if you haven’t checked out the operas he did with Da Ponte (La Nozze Da Figaro, Die Zauberflote, etc.). They are an enormous achievement - delightful, complex, moving. I also recommend the late symphonies and the Requiem. Although, the requiem was completed by a student of Mozarts, it is still an extraordinary work that looks death in the face with appropriate respect but not submission. The late symphonies (Jupiter, etc.) are simply ahead of their time. Beethoven learned a huge amount from them and they were a big influence on the romantic era. Getting to know them will enrich your experience of that whole period in general.

Anyway, I hope that helps. Give some of this stuff a try and if you still don’t like Mozart that’s perfectly OK.

By gabuyt on Aug 3, 2010 | Reply

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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.

By Michael H on Aug 4, 2010 | Reply

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Ok… let me help ya here. I’m not going to argue about Mozart. To some he is boring. and No, he’s definitely not overrated. Just look at how much music he composed. That in itself is remarkable. By looking at what composers you like, you are more into the Romantic music. Debussey and Ravel have such sweeping music that is very calming and easy to listen to. Mahler and Stravinsky are different and really are, in my opinion, hard to listen to for long periods. brahms and Tchaikovsky are very listenable and enjoyable. Mozart was a child prodigy and really was a remarkable composer. the sheer volumes of his music are overwhelming and he did it all in long hand… that’s he amazing part.

That’s my take… and Try some Ralph Vaughn Williams. Serenade to Music…. You’ll fall in love with it..

By Rev.James on Aug 5, 2010 | Reply

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I agree about Mozart. However, I do enjoy the classical period.

By clicksqueek on Aug 8, 2010 | Reply

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For years I never listened to Mozart, dismissing his music as being nothing but a lot of light-weight fluff. But as I got older (matured?), I realized that I was totally wrong about him. His music is elegant and joyful, and often possesses a wonderful sense of charm and beauty. He was also capable of writing music that is quite powerful, with great depth of feeling (e.g., his String Quintet K. 516, and the 20th Piano concerto). And his late operas are towering masterpieces.

And Haydn is also a great master who often goes under-appreciated. Among his Symphonies, Piano Trios, and String Quartets are many dozens of first-rate pieces of music.