I read musicological texts like some people read The National Inquirer or People magazine.
Mozart wrote a song telling a woman to lick his a**!
Was Vivaldi shacking up with a much younger woman?
Schumann was crazy and his best friend was in love with his wife!
Did Schubert get syphilis from that prostitute or that maid?
Yes, these are the types of things I look for in musicology textbooks. My hands rub together with fiendish glee and I shriek with a hallowed laugh. All those composers were rock stars of their time. Anyone who ever feels intimidated by classical music shouldn’t. All those men and women were just as base and human as the next person.
While we’re on the subject, let’s talk about opera. Opera has the most asinine plots I have ever seen. Some guy trying to get under some girl’s petticoat while pretending to be some other guy while she’s trying to make her husband think she’s cheating on him. Stuff like that. Don’t be intimidated by opera either. The music is sublime and complex, sure, but the plots are no better than a plot in a soap opera.
I love classical music to death. I hate to see people not enjoying it because they think some stuffed shirt wrote it or is promoting it. Take back the night! Classical music is for everyone. Mozart, in all his frivolity, would love you for it!
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