complexities

Author

Claudio Constantini
June 27, 2024

A Beethoven symphony lasts anywhere between 25 minutes to over an hour.

Who´s got time for that? Listening to a whole symphony!?

Who can fit in an extra 30 minutes of calmly sitting down and letting Beethoven’s complexities sink into your life? Not while you´ve got a degree to earn, a career to build, a family to raise…

Besides, you need to be at least somewhat familiar with classical music to enjoy such a long-scale work.

As a small child, you´re a sponge. Whatever you´re exposed to, you´ll get used to. Musical taste is formed by whatever musical influences you´re exposed to and your degree of sensibility towards it. If you listen to lots of classical music at home, it will simply be what you´re familiar with and you´ll learn to appreciate it.

As an older adult who was never exposed to classical music, it´s more likely you´ll have the time and desire to discover new things you might be passionate about. And classical music might be just that.

So, the sweet spot to get into classical music, in my opinion, is while you´re a child. Without even knowing it yourself, you´ll be able to feel at home while listening to the complexities of a Beethoven or a Brahms symphony.

You´ll be able to find joy in Mozart, or get consolation for your aching soul from Chopin.

You´ll have the most incredible dreams with Debussy, or marvel at the universe of Ravel.

Any time is a good time to delve into classical music (or any great type of music), but if you have children, or you have any sort of influence whatsoever in any child, now or later, remember, you might be giving them one of the greatest gifts of their lives if you introduce them to great music.

Have a nice day.

Claudio.