Spoony wrote:
You can talk about Brahms all you want, and I agree that he and others of the Romantic period were talented beyond belief, but I'm more impressed by chip-tune music. Composers like Brahms had entire orchestras of highly professional musicians at their disposal. People making chip-tune music were lucky to have half a dozen, but still managed to create some extremely polished, memorable songs.
Pas example. Actually I think the Romantic period is enormously overrated, especially by the people who just got into classical and like it's over-the-top melodrama, Brahms was a conservative revolutionary, a return to modesty and clarity of the classical era. That he had a full orchestra at his disposal doesn't matter that much, the complexity, would ingenuity is still there - much of this was composed and originally played on the piano, mind you. I think it's not fair to pit up simple choir music made to encourage soldier (and to sing along) or chiptunes against music composed by people who devoted their life to this art and spent years creating complex, emotional, yet abstract works of art like Brahms. I enjoy all three, just in different ways - I don't expect you to "get" Brahms right away, if you're not used to classical music Brahms is definitely not the most accessible fellow.
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