Removing Beethoven’s Wig: A Classical Music Reading List
13 min readOct 19, 2020
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AP Photo/Capital City Weekly, James Brooks
I know as much about classical music as I do car mechanics, which is close to nothing, but I do know I like it. Not choruses. I’m not a fan of things like Bach’s choral works. And as much as I appreciate Mozart, his best work is too tempestuous for me. I prefer chillaxed baroque chamber music. I prefer Bach’s Orchestral…