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Has "classical" music always been considered classical, or was even Beethoven subjected to "TURN THAT CRAP DOWN, YOU HIPPY!"

Posted - June 5, 2019

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  • 6023
    It wasn't always "classical".

    But since most of that music was written for a patron ... I doubt it was "Turn that music down".  lol

    Though now I'm imagining adjoining estates having music battles ... blasting Beethoven vs Bach {or whomever} across their garden mazes at each other.  LOL
      June 5, 2019 7:52 AM MDT
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  • 19942
    And someone yelling, "Get that harpsichord off my lawn."
      June 5, 2019 8:10 AM MDT
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  • Definitely not. Innovators like Beethoven were regularly accused of flouting tradition and composing music that no one would appreciate. His symphonies were daring and innovative for the time. It has happened in every musical era. 
      June 5, 2019 9:24 AM MDT
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  • 46117

    I don't know about Beethoven, but Mozart was definitely a hippie.  

    He flaunted all norms.

    Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his early death at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have been much mythologized.

    He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence is profound on subsequent Western art music. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote: "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".[1]

    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at June 5, 2019 9:36 AM MDT
      June 5, 2019 9:34 AM MDT
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  • 10449
    It was called 'longhair music' when I was young.

    Beethoven played his music loud as he was mostly deaf.  (whereas when I cranked up Hendrix and Zeppelin, I was simply sharing decent music with the rest of the state).
      June 5, 2019 9:58 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Ironic then, that most hippies sported long hair.  
      June 5, 2019 10:02 AM MDT
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  • 10449
    The longhairs were those artsy weirdos.  The long hair of the hippie was a way to protest the war.
      June 5, 2019 10:29 AM MDT
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