Songs like "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" give me break downs sometimes. Not just because its beautiful but in the midst of a crumbling civilization around you, just for a moment, it all feels ok. Just for a moment, the world is sane. Classical music is not just great because its beautiful but because its audible sounds bursting through the air into modern day to show a time when people as a unifying culture were mentally healthy. Music is terrible nowadays because there is no spirit in it. The spirit is imbued by hope, and how can there be a spirit with a society so dead that hope is impossible.
Sometimes when I think where we were and how it ended
Josiah Jones
You would think that humans build on previous successes to create even greater successes. That is how evolution works. But no, we probably believed that in the past and got complacent. Complacent with a deadly lie.
> Just for a moment, the world is sane. > Classical music is not just great because its beautiful but because its audible sounds bursting through the air into modern day to show a time when people as a unifying culture were mentally healthy. The world has never been sane and it never will be. We have only had local maxima of human accomplishments for brief periods of time.
We have been around for some 200'000 years, and virtually all of the beauty came in a 200-300 year period in Europe + some 200 year period in ancient Greece.
That is 0.225% of the time humans have been alive and about 0.028% of human history.
Jose Collins
I wish I lived in an era where the 'the country of poets and thinkers' would actually apply to Germany This timeline has gone to shit after WWI
Nathaniel Lewis
Translation for the first few lines of Lacrimosa
Lacrimosa mournful
dies illa that day
qua reserget ex favilla when from the ashes arises
judicandius homo reus a guilty man to be judged
lacrimosa dies illa mournful that day
qua reserget ex favilla when from the ashes arises
judicandus homo reus a guilty man to be judged.
Colton Jackson
True. But try not to cry, but to enjoy this beauty of the past. Be escapist, create your parallel world in your mind by listening to classical music, looking at old architecture, reading old books.
Das Rheingold is one of the best pieces ever written.
Jeremiah Martin
the only real music, friendo
Ethan Fisher
>I wouldn't call satie classical desu. If Für Elise is a classic then the Gnosiemmes and Gymnopedies ought to be classics as well. But I guess there may be more to it. MxRdyK2E also dropped Chopin and Debussy
Seriously, all the best composers came from Germany/Austria back then. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss... what the FUCK happened?
Jason Butler
>modern version You know they actually had portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Mao at the Bayreuth Festival?
Jack Moore
Germans still make some good music, but mostly electric, which not a lot of people listen to.
But yeah, Germans like all Western people have been hit hard by liberal degeneration. No discipline in schools, no ambition, just-be-yourself-indoctrination. Most classical music interpreters now come from Ex-UdSSR, North-East Asia or Colombia.
If we're all children of mother Gaia why do I always feel like a visitor when looking at night sky?
Les habitants du soleil jettent sur nous Un regard impassible: Nous appartenons définitivement à la Terre Et nous y pourrirons, mon amour impossible Jamais nos corps meurtris ne deviendront lumière
I get the same feeling when listening to marching songs. Listening to cheerful young men sing and imagining what it must've been like to live back then compared to now gives me a strong sense of melancholy.
Unlike for you though, I actually have a cultural connection to the music because my grandpas actually served in the war, which makes it even more unfortunate that German life has degenerated so much in the span of 2 generations.
shit audio quality but based mid baroque monopoly post
Adrian Reyes
Bach, arguably, was the best composer to ever live. Being an organist and a harpsichordist, his music is simply unparalleled in light of counterpoint and uniqueness. I agree with you user, classical music provides a temporary escape from a fractured and broken world. I can, when I listen, escape the shitty existence we have and enjoy Bach, Mozart, Pachelbel, and Beethoven to my hearts content, until classical music is labeled as racist.
Luis Nelson
>Being an organist and a harpsichordist, his music is simply unparalleled in light of counterpoint and uniqueness. sounds like you aced music appreciation class
Jaxson Bennett
>letting music emotionally compromise you sounds like you arent stoic my dude.
Michael Walker
Is weed legal in your state? If you are having trouble connecting with a piece on an emotional level, it can really help to cut through the bullshit and let you focus on the music.
Bentley James
A genius motivated to create for God. Even his simpler pieces are so replayable.
"All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub."
Tyler Bennett
Damn beat me to it.
Andrew Martinez
Not really, it makes me feel annoyed.
James Ortiz
Only if it's simple piano pieces like Yiruma's
Charles Martinez
Classical, chamber and choral are the highest spiritual level of music. Followed closely by tango.
