27-10-2014, 11:59
Well said Teo. I have made a similair statement elsewhere so as to thin the fog around this misconception called 'classical' music, which approximately lasted 30 years all in all, and does not in the slightest encompass the phenomenon which saw Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert as its major representatives. In opera some would add Bellini in the list of classicals, a master of the sung melody. All of these masters burst the seams that pedants always rigidly advocate...
and you are right in asserting that it is always a romantic venture that sees the Birth of a composition, even though others label it with other tags.
All of them overstepped the rules and traditions, because art is and ought to be characterized by a certain freedom. And they knew it. Even when they were commissioned with some composition or other. And this is also the reason why they were scarcely understood in their own times. Originality and diversity. Characteristics always contested by the short-sighted.
and you are right in asserting that it is always a romantic venture that sees the Birth of a composition, even though others label it with other tags.
All of them overstepped the rules and traditions, because art is and ought to be characterized by a certain freedom. And they knew it. Even when they were commissioned with some composition or other. And this is also the reason why they were scarcely understood in their own times. Originality and diversity. Characteristics always contested by the short-sighted.
Cogito, ergo sum...