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Old 13th Jul 2021, 11:43 pm   #62
GrimJosef
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Default Re: The end of physical media.

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Originally Posted by JohnBG8JMB View Post
... I don't listen to [ducks behind the crenellations] pop music. I think that it is essentially commercial ephemera, repeated ad nauseum ... If you can call it music. But I have 100s of classical and jazz CDs ...
Mozart was pretty popular/commercial in his day ... although it seems he spent his money as easily as he earned it and ended up dying in some financial difficulty at a relatively young age (very 'rock and roll', as they say).

When it comes to things being ephemeral, we are lucky to have as much of J S Bach's work as we do, given the minor regard it seems it was held in before the 'Bach Revival' took hold, well into the 19th century. This, despite the number of musical children he had, most of whom don't seem to have taken much trouble to preserve his compositions !

Cheers,

GJ
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