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NotImportant said: 

Mozart melts my heart. His music represents exactly how my brain works. It’s complicated and there are changes in the tempo that seem random, but it’s really just telling a very intricate and varied story about life. Okay, I got a little carried away there, but I get bored of the other two. Beethoven’s my second favorite because I get bored after a longer period of time, but my least favorite is Bach. I can’t handle the repetition. It just feels safe to me and I need excitement, or at least my brain does. Simulation is probably more accurate, but they all have some good songs, but Mozart gets me.

 I wouldn't call Bach repetitious. He touched on a lot of instruments and styles and did a lot of different things with them. Although he is very baroque which might explain how one could view his stuff as less dynamic than others. But anyway he's known for his fugues which involves up to five independent musical lines interlocking on a single musical theme and no other composer has gotten close to him on that style. It's very complex but I'd understand why some don't like him, because the complexity can make it very rich and not suited for casual listening. 

Now let me mix things up and introduce Igor Stravinsky into the fray. He's a 20th century composer and was known for breaking many musical rules and incorporating dissonance in an interesting way. In particular his rite of spring is a good one-

InternetExplorer said: 

It's very complex but I'd understand why some don't like him, because the complexity can make it very rich and not suited for casual listening. 

Complexity in music is pointless if it doesn't sound any good. 

For example: 

Plug for Rachmaninov Concerto 2 (as former pianist myself)

Also I have ALL of my dad’s jazz and classical records. Let me know if there is something of value to you and I can talk about selling.

I have an Art Blakeley and Messengers Blue Note 4003. Look what it’s selling for now / look at the value 

I have not gotten around to putting mine on ebay because it’s my legacy and I can’t decide whether it’s worth to me to sell 

My father used to play Peter and the Wolf for me as a child 

It’s a very amusing narrated recording I think by Leonard Bernstein

Great introduction to classical music is “Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts” I may have this record

Med said: 

Also I have ALL of my dad’s jazz and classical records. Let me know if there is something of value to you and I can talk about selling.

I have an Art Blakeley and Messengers Blue Note 4003. Look what it’s selling for now / look at the value 

I have not gotten around to putting mine on ebay because it’s my legacy and I can’t decide whether it’s worth to me to sell 

What condition is it in? People tend to want mint. 

Near mint. My dad was fastidious. Nothing is really mint once you buy it.

Don't know a lot about any of them. I don't like music either way so none.

Turncoat said: 

InternetExplorer said: 

It's very complex but I'd understand why some don't like him, because the complexity can make it very rich and not suited for casual listening. 

Complexity in music is pointless if it doesn't sound any good. 

For example: 

 This is true, but in the case of Bach he is often referred to as the master of complexity in classical music, especially in terms of polyphony. Take "The Well Tempered Clavier". It's only played with a keyboard so in that way it's minimal (one instrument type) but the layered keyboard melodic lines create something truly profound. I personally prefer this version on the harpsichord the most-

user33313 said: 

I don't like music

Why not? 

Actually Turncoat, I sent the well tempered clavier as an example of Bach's contrapuntal genius, but a more consise example of what makes him so great is probably this 6 part fugue-