Originally Posted By: Mark Hayes
The situation with contemporary “serious” (AKA “classical”) music is perhaps the most depressing of all. Most people don’t even know such music exists. Imagine trying to make a living writing new orchestral music when all anyone wants to hear is Pachabel’s Canon or Beethoven’s 5th.

I dearly love Classical music, mostly from the Romantic to the contemporary eras, but not all of it. There are symphonies that I could take to the 'desert island', and there are some that I simply don't care for. It's not a judgement of good or bad, just what rings my bells.

I tend to prefer the dark brooding minor key symphonies like those of Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Dvorak, Suk, Shostakovitch, Prokofiev, more than others. Mozart was a genius, but his music bores me. It's still great music though. My favorite Beethoven symphonies are 4 and 7, the 5th has a great first movement then pedestrian, and I really don't care for #9. Like I said, not a judgement, just me, and I really don't know why some hit me and others don't.

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