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Old 08-09-2009, 02:07 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by FatasieImpromptuPl0x View Post
Ok, people... please stop saying that your favorite classical composer is Chopin and Bach. Their romantic and Baroque. To mix up the three would be completely terrible to the people who invented those genres, so to speak. Putting everything into the classical era is insulting to your "favorites", and giving to much credit to the Classical composers. imo
If you want to be this pedantic about things, try to figure out what Bach, Mozart, and Mahler considered their genres to be.

Don't you think that the terms baroque, classical, and romantic were invented, well, a little after the fact?
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