Do you hate any piece/work by a personal beloved Classical Composer? I love Mozart's Operas and Piano Concertos...but these Horn Concertos are so stiff and banal....
I also love Beethoven, but I find his chamber works to be very dry and academic...
2006-09-03 14:54:31 · 6 answers · asked by Ezekiel 29 bumfuzzle~ 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
I know exactly what you mean.I don't mind the horn concertos so much but its the flute works I don't care for. I think I was influenced by all the stories about Mozart not liking the flute when I was younger; I just don't care for them! The exception is the one flute concerto that was adapted from an oboe concerto -- and I only like it in the oboe version.
I'm not a big fan of the piano or violin sonatas, either, but strangely enough I don't mind playing them myself (I'm a pianist). Rightly or wrongly I always saw them as "inferior" works originally written for inferior musicians.
I don't like the Bach orchestral suites but love alot of his other orchestral music. No idea why, but when one of them comes on the radio its a sure channel changer.
Chopin waltzes, too. Love just about any other Chopin, even the pieces it seems like you hear almost every other day. But the waltzes -- no thanks. Again, no idea why.
2006-09-05 05:56:44 · answer #1 · answered by DR 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a huge Mozart fan, but I kinda of have to agree with you--the horn concertos are not my favorite works by him. Here are a couple of things I try to keep in mind when I listen to these:
1. The horn was more limited as an instrument when Mozart was writing these concerti. They were in fact very virtuosic for their time, it just doesn't sound that way as much now.
2. The sound of the horn tended to have certain associations to 18th century audiences, especially evocative of the hunt. A lot of the music in these concertos is "hunting" music. It may sound trite to us today, but it would have sounded exciting and adventerous to a contemporary audience.
Btw, I don't think all of Mozart's operas are as wonderful as Figaro or the Magic Flute. A lot of the opera seria (Tito, Idomeneo) lack that certain spark that you also hear in the other operas and piano concerti.
2006-09-04 10:57:53 · answer #2 · answered by Music 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each artist of any field draws on his experiences and knowledge at a particular time to create a specific work of art. It's not too surprising that you have favorites,and not so favorite works from the same artist, as that artist changes and grows just as we change throughout our lives. Sometimes I have heard a piece in one context and loved or hated it, yet in another time or place, the same work doesn't strike me the same way. Also consider why certain music is written, for what audience, at what times. Even an artist must eat, and if technically challenging, yet unimaginative chamber music will sell, then he must produce it.
If you only chose the composer as an entirety, how would your critical faculties enter into your pleasures? I don't know that it would be fair to judge all of one person's work by the one piece you disliked, anymore than it would be fair to applaud the composer by his name, not his individual works.
2006-09-03 23:35:59 · answer #3 · answered by herewittykitty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you just haven't heard inspired performances. I love the 2nd Horn Concerto. And Beethoven's String Quartets? Keep an open mind. And ear.
2006-09-03 23:07:02 · answer #4 · answered by Arrow 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry, many people have led more or less normal lives despite having the kind of personality disorder you possess!
2006-09-03 22:20:27 · answer #5 · answered by banjuja58 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you don't have to like ALL of an artists' work! it's uneven, as one's work will be. no dichotomy exists, especially when opinions are involved.
2006-09-03 22:27:54 · answer #6 · answered by altgrave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋