Originally posted by Pantallica1
True. You have to look at the music that was available at the time. There was no distorted guitars, or electric guitars for that matter. Just old fashioned piano. Now there's so many types of music, that classical just gets put on the back burner. The next Beethoven or Mozart might not be discovered for another 200 years after his death when someone is digging through classical music and hears his piece.

what about the harpsichord, lute and mandolin? in the posher houses of the period these were often knocking about, more so than the old joanna.

interestingly enough, there are many records of music, art and lit. critiques which show that even works put out by Wolfgang A, Beethoven, Brahms etc often came in for a serious roasting just like records by Bush in the UK do.