<p>Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Wagner, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, etc.?</p>
<p>i usually do when i am just relaxing or when i need to be creative. <a href="http://www.di.fm%5B/url%5D">www.di.fm</a> usually works since i dont know much about certain composers.</p>
<p>Yeah, I listen to classical music, but I mainly listen to it when I want to relax or during ballet class. My favorite composer is Vivaldi.</p>
<p>i listen to classical music. my band teacher got me into it a bit. tchaikovsky's my favorite</p>
<p>yea i do all the time...zeppelin, floyd, hendrix, the who, creedence, etc.</p>
<p>haha im hilarious!</p>
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yea i do all the time...zeppelin, floyd, hendrix, the who, creedence, etc.</p>
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<p>yeah you're cool..</p>
<p>anyway...</p>
<p>I like tchaikovsky and mozart the most.</p>
<p>My son who is 15 listens to classical all the time. He doesnt even know who the current music groups/bands nowadays. Guess he isnt the typical teenager.</p>
<p>Anyone interested in some music by classical composers alive and still writing music today?</p>
<p>Yes, I actually do. That's all I listen to, actually.</p>
<p>Lol Gumball...like who?
I'm a composer so I love that stuff. The funny thing is...a lot of music performance majors...if you look at their facebook profile and look under music, you might not even find all that many classical composers. Ask them to name a composer still alive? Good luck. :)</p>
<p>I don't listen to popular music. I'm a classical music purist. Lol. Is it a coincidence that a larger percentage of "intelligent" people listen to classical music? Or is it purely preferential?</p>
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Got any good suggestions? Frankly, I don't have a preferance, as long as it is music to my ears.</p>
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<p>Virtuoso...what's the most recent "classical music" you listen to?
There's some really interesting music that I think you're missing out on virtusos735... ;) Radiohead, Bjork, Aphex Twin for starters?</p>
<p>And by the way...the whole Mozart makes you smarter? It's a scam...there's no conclusive evidence that it makes you smarter. "Is it a coincidence that a larger percentage of "intelligent" people listen to classical music?"
I think if you replace "intelligent" with "more affluent" it would be a more apt statement. Simply put it...classical music is a historically elitist genre. I hate that. It shouldn't be, but it is.</p>
<p>I love "classical music" pre-1900. But that's usually what most people associate "classical music" with. What about everything after that? Esp. stuff from the last 20 years or so.</p>
<p>Trying listening to some people like umm...</p>
<p>John Adams, Steve Reich, Thomas Ades, Gyorgy Ligeti (who just passed away last week at 83)....more to come if anyone's interested. They don't sound very Mozart-like by the way. And it's def. not elevator music.</p>
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And by the way...the whole Mozart makes you smarter? It's a scam...there's no conclusive evidence that it makes you smarter. "Is it a coincidence that a larger percentage of "intelligent" people listen to classical music?"
I think if you replace "intelligent" with "more affluent" it would be a more apt statement. Simply put it...classical music is a historically elitist genre. I hate that. It shouldn't be, but it is.
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I listened to classical music every night for a whole semester, and I did 200% better in Math then when I didn't. I also outperformed everyone in that class. In other words, I went from a C math student (Middle School) to an A+ student (freshmam) in math. I hated algebra, but I aced Algebra II. There's something to think about, although I don't believe it myself.</p>
<p>I didn't listen to Mozart, but a diverse compilation of 'olde' composers.</p>
<p>Yeah...I've heard stories of students do better in school with dramatic improvement. I'm pretty sure they didn't listen to classical music. I would hope they would give it a try some day though.</p>
<p>Stories? Eh.....</p>
<p>Well...ok...not stories.
People I actually know. Classmates. I've never asked them if they listened to Classical Music- the one weakness of my argument; but I'm willing to gamble they're not the kind of people to listen to Mozart or Beethoven. </p>
<p>Anyway...people are missing out on some good non-classical music.</p>
<p>Dvorak's NWS=greatness</p>
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yeah, there's great music out there that no matter what kind of music you listen to, if you call yourself a "purist" or you listen to something "exclusively," you miss out on a lot. though i'll admit sometimes i wish i knew more about classical music than i did.</p>
<p>personally, i didnt really get into classical until i took a music appreciation class over the summer. now i listen to it about as much as everything else in my collection, which has everything from Stray Cats (rockabilly revival), to Pulp (britpop), to Arcade Fire (indie), to Gang of Four (post punk)...to those i can now add Sibelius, Dvorak, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, Grieg, Janacek, Part, et al. actually, i've been listening to Mozart's Requiem (conducted by Marriner, which i had to spend $18 for because it was no where else) end to end for the last 3 weeks now...there's something eerie about how i can't get parts of it out of my mind...</p>