Digi7 said:
I never liked rock or metal like most teenage guys. Sure, I listened to it, but I never really loved it. Then I found classical music. My god, it filled me with wonder as to how I survived without it. That music is true genius, and no talentless ****** like Bieber can even begin to be on the same reality plane to compare to it.
Now, a lot of people are snooty about classical music. "If it's classical it's bound to be good. Now I'm going to go to the golf club and have a glass of port." Wrong. There's terrible classical music too. I dislike the cheery stuff, it feels empty and shallow. I prefer quietly sad and beautiful music, such as the compositions of Ludovico Einaudi.
That's Ludovico Einaudi.
He.
Is.
Incredible.
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Now, what's your opinion on classical music? Do you like it? Despise it? Think it's boring, and prefer your rockin' metal?
If you do like it, who's your favourite composer?
I hate to break it to you, but this song, while beautiful, is not really classical. The development, harmonies and the way the song rolls from highs to lows are pretty modern. If anything, I'd say the style here is minimalist, with the simple orchestration and basic melody repeating. Classical music usually does not have multiple, different lines of music at the same time, but instead just chords that accentuate the main melody. Of course, like most rules of classification, there are more exceptions to this than examples that follow it, but overall, this rule is the largest minority.
It's all lumped together anyways, so calling it classical is fine until you run into people really into this sort of music. The problem is, most famous "classical" composers weren't actually classical. Bach and Vivaldi are definitely Baroque, Mozart is the early days of true Classical, and Beethoven is the last days of it, being more Romantic in nature. Most famous Russian composers are Romantic moving into the Modern periods.
Like I said, though, none of this really matters, as classical has a pretty widely accepted meaning of anything involving a symphony orchestra, and Einaudi certainly uses that. Still, if you want to find more like this, you might have more luck looking for Contemporary or Minimalist music.
