Classical music |
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Classical music |

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classical music (from lat. classicus – exemplary) – music. works of the highest art. requirements, combining depth, content, ideological significance with the perfection of form. In this sense, the concept of “K. m.” not limited to.-l. historical frames – it can be attributed to both products created in the distant past, and modern. essays. However, the “test of time” should also be taken into account: historical. experience shows that when evaluating the music. prod. contemporaries often made mistakes. Works that did not possess high arts. merits, gained popularity, because they answered one or another request of their era. And vice versa, pl. works that did not receive recognition during the lifetime of their authors, over time were rated as classic and entered the “golden fund” of world music. art. The concept “K. m.” not limited and k.-l. nat. frames. Works classified as K. m. receive recognition not in one country, but in many others. countries. The concept “K. m.” rightfully applied to all the work of each of the greatest composers of all times and peoples, osn. part of whose works meet the requirements listed above. In one case, the concept of “K. m.” it is also interpreted as historically specific – in relation to the work of J. Haydn, W. A. ​​Mozart and L. Beethoven; their work was called the Viennese musical classics, the Viennese classical school. Understood in this sense, the term “K. m.” also denotes a certain historically specific style of music, a certain art, a trend (similar to the related term classicism in terms of vocabulary, which, however, is wider and more inclusive in meaning). In all other cases, the term “K. m.” does not mean k.-l. certain style or direction. Thus, the compositions of J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel (“old classics”), as well as the works of romantic composers F. Schubert, R. Schumann, F. Chopin, and others are also classified as classical music.

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