Music has a powerful effect on a person’s inner world. It can bring pleasure or, on the contrary, anxiety. It is music that expresses feelings so complex that they are sometimes impossible to describe in words.
Classical music implies that the work contains serious content, addressing eternal questions of human existence. At the heart of classical works are the same moral, religious and philosophical problems that are in the works of artists and writers. That is why in the history of classical music you can find the same trends as in the history of fine art, architecture, and literature – Baroque, Romanticism, Impressionism and so on. Music allows you to understand complex problems not only with your mind but also with your heart and to feel them from the inside, to reflect and to empathize.
Listening to classical music is not easy; it requires concentration, moral and intellectual preparation. However, this does not mean that the world of classical music is inaccessible. All it takes is a great willingness and a little patience to enter it, and then the listener will be surprised to discover that a work written many years ago tells of his own feelings and hopes, as if the composer could know the soul of a person he had never seen.
A deep understanding of the music requires some effort on the part of the listener, but how much is gained by the person who makes the effort! A wonderful world opens up before him, filled with sounds of captivating beauty and spirituality. This world is open to people; the main thing is to listen to the music.
If we talk about history, up to the 19th century classical music was created for the wealthy and educated segments of the population, who could appreciate it. In the 20th century the situation has changed dramatically, to the art, enlightenment and education began to reach the masses of the population. Classical works became widespread and ceased to be a feature of high society, now almost everyone could afford to listen to it. But not everyone sought to this, because to understand the classics, to discern its beauty and originality is not given to everyone.
Many consider classical music as an expression of the emotional and spiritual development of the personality. This is the true way of self-expression, the development of hidden qualities and abilities, opportunities. Today, pop music is very popular among people of all ages, which cannot be said about classical music.
Nowadays classical music is a real treasury, which collected by grains the best musical creations of all times. The history of classical music is a reflection of the history of the development of all mankind, which from the primitive motifs of antiquity and tunes came to perfect, melodious, unique classical music.