Describing music is like describing life.
It is complex, yet simple.
It is big, yet small.
Its unique, yet common.
Music happens when life happens. It is so connected to life that it has the power to affect and change life. Music realizes thew most profound feelings in us. Music means many things to many people.
To Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart music was so important that even in his last days all he could think of was to finish his last composition "Requeim". In his lifetime he composed over 600 works, many acknowledge as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic and choral music. In his life time he also constantly suffered at the hands of illness.
When one speaks of Mozart, it is but mandatory to talk of Ludwig van Beethoven. He wrote his own compositions in the shadow of Mozart. "Posterity will not see such a talent in a 100 years" said Joseph Haydn of him. He had been deaf for a good decade when he released the completed 9th symphony.
Being the most celebrated musicians of history, to know that neither of the two could enjoy the music they composed raises a question: what tied them to music in such a way that they went on even in the darkest times of their lives?
I can't speak for either as I couldn't have known them in their lifetimes, but it is safe to say: To each music was life.
It may not be that to everyone, but, everyone enjoys music. There isn't a single person I know who doesn't enjoy some sort of music. It soothes the tensed and disturbed mind. A little music can change the environment to a degree that can astound us. Music has an effect on everyone. It may be one's source of inspiration. It may be another's source of relaxation. To some it may have a calming effect. To some an agitating effect. To many it is a source of hope. And to some, like Beethoven and Mozart, it may be the source of life.
To me, music is another world. It is like a dream where I control the flow. It excites me when I need to be excited. It calms me when I want to be calmed. It listens to me when I have to talk and talks to me when I want to listen. It gives me meaning where I find none. It thinks for me when I cant think and urges me to think when I have to. It shows me the light that is life, when I'm engulfed by the darkness. To me it is a dear friend who holds my hand through shit and tells me "AAL IS WELL".
When one speaks of Mozart, it is but mandatory to talk of Ludwig van Beethoven. He wrote his own compositions in the shadow of Mozart. "Posterity will not see such a talent in a 100 years" said Joseph Haydn of him. He had been deaf for a good decade when he released the completed 9th symphony.
Being the most celebrated musicians of history, to know that neither of the two could enjoy the music they composed raises a question: what tied them to music in such a way that they went on even in the darkest times of their lives?
I can't speak for either as I couldn't have known them in their lifetimes, but it is safe to say: To each music was life.
It may not be that to everyone, but, everyone enjoys music. There isn't a single person I know who doesn't enjoy some sort of music. It soothes the tensed and disturbed mind. A little music can change the environment to a degree that can astound us. Music has an effect on everyone. It may be one's source of inspiration. It may be another's source of relaxation. To some it may have a calming effect. To some an agitating effect. To many it is a source of hope. And to some, like Beethoven and Mozart, it may be the source of life.
To me, music is another world. It is like a dream where I control the flow. It excites me when I need to be excited. It calms me when I want to be calmed. It listens to me when I have to talk and talks to me when I want to listen. It gives me meaning where I find none. It thinks for me when I cant think and urges me to think when I have to. It shows me the light that is life, when I'm engulfed by the darkness. To me it is a dear friend who holds my hand through shit and tells me "AAL IS WELL".
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ReplyDeleteMusic is in life itself. SOME people expressed it through instruments. Nature plays it's own ever-lasting symphony- the waves in the sea, the gushing of the wind, the cry of a wolf, the roar of a Waterfall, the chirp of birds............Ever-lasting!