What is ur favorite type of music

@alan20 Where do you draw the line when it comes to defining what is "classical" and what isn't?

@NankerPhelge Haydn, Mozart, early Beethoven are classical. About 1795 on to the present are what I like.

@alan20 Which composers do you especially like?

Ok Beethoven is good I want to go to Beethoven academy

@DanielleLivingston1999
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@NankerPhelge thxs

Fur Elise is my favorite by Beethoven it's about this lover that rejected him but he wrote the song for her

@DanielleLivingston1999 I haven't heard that one.

@NankerPhelge Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Malcolm Arnold, Prokofiev, De Falla - the list is endless.

@alan20 I don't see what else Tchaikovsky was if he wasn't classical. What would you call him? Rock 'n' roll? Lol :)

@NankerPhelge Romantic!

@alan20 Lots of contemporary music is romantic but nothing like classical music. Too many examples to list here.

@NankerPhelge There's been a long-running debate about what to call "art" or "serious" music and nobody has really come up with a satisfactory answer. To the general public it's all classical and insofar as that word can mean it'll still be performed from generation to generation, that word is probably as good as any. But within that overall umbrella you've got Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Classical, Early Romantic, Late Romantic, and Modern - the last breaking down into numerous schools like serial, electronic, minimalist and so on. I doubt if that makes it any clearer!!

@alan20 I'm not a connoisseur of classical music, I just know bits and bobs of it. I can't really make detailed comments on it.

@NankerPhelge Glad you enjoy what you enjoy.

@alan20 We all enjoy what we enjoy, it's just that we all have varied taste.

@NankerPhelge Very true.

@alan20 I've found it a good thing to have friends whose tastes differ from my own, it opens my mind to music I hadn't previously considered listening to but later discover it's good.

@NankerPhelge I've spent my life as a music teacher and yet still find when I'm listening to something new, I often have to give it a chance by listening to it several times over a period of time. An example would be Stenhammar's 2nd.Symphony which I now find quite haunting. Or the American composer Hanson's 2nd. Symphony which can move one to tears. I'm a big fan of melody!

@alan20 I've never heard of those composers before. When were they around?