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Old 06-02-2013, 03:26 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by anathematized_one View Post
I view Vivaldi the same as I do Mozart; 90% of it is crap and it is the only stuff you can find because it is popular ["Four Seasons" is the absolute most trite and wanky garbage he ever composed much like the most popular Mozart pieces] because at the time, the trite, kitschy stuff is what sold, so they made tons of it so they could afford to live and the actual good compositions with genuine feeling flew under the radar and are difficult as hell to come across. Like trying to find anything by Pacheball that is NOT "Cannon in D".

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Do you listen to much classical at all or are you just making this opinion based on the popular stuff you've heard a million times?
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