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You never understood classical music

No offense, but for the most part the stuff you say you liked was the middlebrow stuff, if that. It's no surprise to me that you found it simplistic, because it is.

If you really want to understand how sophisticated and rewarding music can be, you have to listen to the greats until things "click" and you appreciate them. That means Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, first and foremost, as well as Haydn, Brahms, Handel, Schubert, and others in the great German tradition.

We are talking musical sophistication that is orders of magnitude greater than what you've been listening to. Indeed, I'm not sure you're even hearing music, because you place much too much emphasis on timbre. If you find the piano reduction of Beethoven's Fifth as exciting as the symphonic version, you are hearing the music. Otherwise, you're just listening to sound.


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