(April 29, 2016 at 7:17 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Yeah, and, thanks to this sort of mentality being common in the Classical period, that's why, with the exception of a few names, like Mozart, Haydn, Rossini, maybe opera composers like Gluck and Bellini, a few scattered pieces by Boccherini, and Beethoven (who's usually grouped with the Romantics anyway), much of the music of the Classical Period has fallen out of favour.
Rossini is already a bit of a stretch ...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition