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yvannairieSomething I wish I'd been told when I was still studying classical music:
Often the "value" and "prestige" of a piece of classical music isn't judged by its listening value, but rather by its performative value as... I guess averaged or otherwise derived both from the audience's opinion and the performer's opinion.
This explains why a lot of examples of "great" pieces never resonated with me as a flute player, I simply had no frame of reference for appreciating them from the performer's perspective.
(To this day, I also the piano is just flatly overappreciated as an instrument.)
Often the "value" and "prestige" of a piece of classical music isn't judged by its listening value, but rather by its performative value as... I guess averaged or otherwise derived both from the audience's opinion and the performer's opinion.
This explains why a lot of examples of "great" pieces never resonated with me as a flute player, I simply had no frame of reference for appreciating them from the performer's perspective.
(To this day, I also the piano is just flatly overappreciated as an instrument.)
