In Reply to: Hey ssshhht! posted by Rob on January 6, 2000 at 02:27:19:
>>Haydn and Mozart is perfect muzak, that is music to spin in a restaurant, not wanting to disturb converstations with sudden orchestral outbursts filled with pain, terror or pure joy. <<Now, Rob, you really didn't think I'd let you get away with that one, did you? What about the g minor symphonies (Mozart 25 & 40)? Minor keys were rarely used at Mozart's time and always had a discordance and emotional darkness associated with them.
And Don Giovanni isn't choked with emotion - an allegorical opera stemming from Wolfie's struggles with his father? Or the idealism of Magic Flute. It's not that Mozart and haydn lack emotional content. It's that, given the vehicles at their disposal for conveying emotion, it only sounds unemotional to ears more attuned to the modern orchestra.
And might some of the Sturm und Drang of Mahler or Wagner be more obvious to a generation raised on acid rock than the more delicate, though still powerful, content of the Mozart 40th? It took me a fair number of years of listening before I realized how dark and disturbing that symphony must have sounded to audiences of the day, and I've heard it that way ever since.
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- Hey, I'm talkin' to you! - Phil Sieg 07:18:07 01/06/00 (8)
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