AES123 Classical Music

I’ve recently been listening a lot to classical music, it seems that my music taste keeps going backwards in time. There’s this common idea in people’s heads that classical music is stuffy and boring, but there is a reason these symphonies are still remembered and played after hundreds of years. These are the pieces of music history that have stood the test of time, and become nothing short of legends.

While listening to these classical pieces, I realised that I’m familiar with most of the melodies, but I’ve never been able to name the song or the person who composed it. I think it’s also like that with most people, these melodies are so ingrained in us that we kind of take it for granted. 

We all know the names of famous composers, these maestros were unparalleled musical geniuses that created musical compositions in a way that shook the entire world when released. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Chopin…. Everyone around the world has heard their music at some point. This kind of music transcends language and cultural barriers, there’s this sort of universal beauty that everyone can appreciate. 

The lives of artists are rarely uneventful, and it also applies to these composers. They all each have an interesting story to tell, about their relationship with music and how they are able to arrange such beautiful symphonies. I’ll most definitely write about them someday. 

I’ve always been impressed with sheet music, I can’t imagine that an entire symphony can be conveyed with just some symbols on a parchment. That such complex and layered sounds are able to be written down, understood and played by someone hundreds of years later. It’s simply magic. Maybe one day I’ll learn how to read them, and try out a few songs for myself.