There's some modern classical like Schoenberg and Stravinsky that I adore, and there are moments in operas, especially Wagner, where I just get swept away. And if someone said Bach's Mass in B Minor is the best piece of music ever written, I couldn't fault him for having that opinion. But by and large, most music from the Classical, Baroque, or Romantic periods leaves me completely neutral. It's pleasant, but it's not something I repeatedly seek out. It is so much the background fabric of Western culture that it has become restaurant music.
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