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Cycles, rather than doom

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I take heart in the fact that interest in "classical" music has always been very cyclical.

For instance Johan Sebastien Bach enjoyed a measure of fame and popularity during his lifetime, but just a generation later his music was virtually unknown in Europe until being revived by Mendelssohn and Brahms (~200 years later).

Mozart did not achieve the fame that he desired in his lifetime, but his music really started being appreciated after his death in 1791 (and has been with us ever since).

Gustav Mahler was known as an eccentric conductor during his lifetime. His compositions were laughed at. He did not achieve his current popularity until some 50 years after his death (in 1911). Curiously, his compositions really took off in popularity during the beatnik 1960's rather than Mahler's own late romantic era.

I could go on and on..., but the cyclical aspect of interest in "classical" music leads me to the conclusion that it's only interest in the music that changes through time while the music itself is surely immortal, and there will be future generations who appreciate it in a way that current generations do not.

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