Why do people like mozart music

Below we take a look at ten reasons why you should make classical music a part of your daily routine. Listening to a peace of music can trigger positive chemical reactions in the brain which help reduce stress and depression levels, studies suggest. Some also claim that the act of hearing music has as great an impact physiologically as having a massage. There is some disagreement among researchers about the extent of this effect and how precisely it works.

Testing students preparing for exams, researchers found that their sleep patterns were improved significantly when they spent 45 minutes before bed listening to classical music. An adequate level of sleep each night helps with learning and other tasks during the day. Perhaps unsurprisingly, music has been identified as a major factor in assisting people to perform physical tasks, whether exercising to strengthen fitness or carrying out tasks that require coordination.

David Greenberg of Cambridge University has conducted research into links between music and personality traits. His work revealed that it is possible to tell the type of personality someone has based on their musical preference. He divides between empathizes and systemizers, saying that the first group is more influenced by emotions, while the latter think in terms of patterns or systems.

People who are somewhere in the middle are categorized as balanced. He adds that 95 percent of people can be placed in one of these three groups. Empathists are more likely to go for mellow music with sad emotions, systemizers chose more intense styles, and the balanced group was more likely to be open to a broader range of styles.

Such information can help councilors and therapists with treatment, and predict certain behaviors. Greenberg notes that music can assist people to process emotions following a traumatic event. His research indicated that adults who had been through trauma in childhood engage with music in a different way to others who have not.

Professionals like teachers can use the personality information found by Greenberg to determine whether a child or young person has a particular musical talent. This means that allowing your children to be exposed to music could provide the information to uncover a talent you never knew they had.

Evidence has been found to indicate that music speeds up the process of healing tissue. It also can distract the brain from focusing on chronic physical pain. Hearing a piece of classical music can enhance the activity of the genes which regulate dopamine secretion and memory while reducing those affecting neuro-degeneration.

A study by Bernardi, Porta and Sleight discovered that music with a slower tempo can help regulate your heartbeat. The test involved 32 participants, half of whom were experienced musicians. CMUSE is a participant of the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program — it is designed to provide an aid for the websites in earning an advertisement fee — by means of advertising and linking to Amazon. CMUSE is your music news and entertainment website. Put it all together, and you have the most famous composer of his time dying in debt and with nothing for his wife and children to survive on aside from exploiting his legacy.

George Bernard Shaw once jokingly said of Mozart, "Even his funeral was a failure. But this wasn't because he was poor although he was definitely poor. Instead, it was because he wasn't an aristocrat, and the laws of the time forbade private burials for everyone except the nobility.

These mass burials were common, and they were conducted with a fair amount of ceremony and dignity, but it's still shocking to think someone as talented and special as Mozart would simply be placed in an unmarked grave. Worse, his remains were later exhumed from this mass gravesite and re-interred someplace, but we don't know exactly where, so his final resting place is unknown.

Louis Carp notes , there's a monument to Mozart in Vienna, erected in after some detective work identified a likely location for his remains. The city then later moved the monuments — but not the bodies — of several composers, including Mozart's, to another location, creating even more confusion. If you've seen the film Amadeus , you might think that Mozart's famous unfinished "Requiem" was commissioned by a vengeful, angry Salieri as part of a complex gaslighting campaign to drive Mozart insane.

That's likely not anywhere near the truth, although a mysterious man in a mask did appear at Mozart's apartments to commission the music. But according to Britannica , it was actually commissioned by Count Franz von Walsegg, who wanted the composition to honor the memory of his recently deceased wife, Anna. Walsegg had a reputation for commissioning music from composers and then pretending that he'd written the piece himself , performing it in private, so it's likely this is what he intended for the "Requiem in D minor, K.

It's also possible that Mozart knew full well what was going on but needed the money so desperately he was willing to go along with the charade. As it turns out, it didn't matter. Mozart fell ill before he could finish the piece. He heard a private performance of what he'd written the day before he died, and his wife, Constanze, arranged to have it finished by a student based on Mozart's notes.

Speculation about Mozart's health issues is pretty common. People analyze his portraits, his letters, and even his music for clues about his physical and mental states.

It's not just his early death that makes him fascinating — it's also his behavior. Psychiatrists Joseph Jankovic and Aidin Ashoori note that Mozart was well-known for making scatological jokes and references constantly in both verbal and written communication, was known to make strange and inappropriate facial expressions grimacing, repetitive movements , and exhibited what could be interpreted as signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder OCD.

Ashoori and Dr. Jankovic say that all of these behaviors are also symptoms of Tourette syndrome, a condition marked by involuntary exclamations, usually of a vulgar or inappropriate nature, and movements. If Mozart did in fact suffer from Tourette's, he was likely a very high-functioning patient, able to either mask his symptoms as the unique behavior of a creative mind or to control it well enough so that it didn't impede his function in society.

The Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II was one of Mozart's biggest patrons, so when he died in , it wasn't good news for Mozart, who was already desperate for money. The new emperor, Leopold II, wasn't so fond of Mozart, in part because Mozart fraternized with Freemasons, but when the idea of commissioning an opera to commemorate the occasion of his coronation was floated, the first choice to write it was, ironically, Antonio Salieri. However, Mozart's jealous nemesis turned down the commission, and Mozart was the only man available.

Mozart couldn't afford to say no, and so he began work on La C lemenza di Tito. But according to The Telegraph , the event was a complete disaster.

Attendees described it as "very boring" and "so bad that almost all of us went to sleep. One performer was described as singing "more with her hands than with her throat" and "a lunatic," which must've made it difficult to judge the music itself. In fact, by the early s, the opera was being performed to acclaim, and it's now considered a classic. But Mozart died believing it was a complete failure.

The idea that Mozart was poisoned, possibly by a jealous Antonio Salieri, didn't come out of nowhere. In fact, it came from Mozart himself. His final days were horrible. Mozart was paranoid and very sick, and he came to believe he was being poisoned.

However, The Guardian reports that when he came out of his fevers, he would retract the accusations. What's definitely true is that Mozart suffered terribly in his final moments. The New York Times notes that people at his bedside described him as "very swollen, so much so that he was unable to turn in bed," with a high fever that sent him into paranoid delusions. Richard H. For me, being a pre-Romantic composer means the music isn't about the man, but it's about the circumstance.

He didn't write to purge himself, but to fulfill commissions. He loads his music so miraculously because he was an inspired genius, but his musical brief wasn't to inform or to create a cathartic, confessional work that would explain to us just how unhappy he was.

He composed to order, and tailored his music to the availabilities and talents of those who would perform it. He wrote his arias specifically for the voice that would immediately perform them, not for posterity. There's no great presence of the ego in Mozart's work, no explicit ejaculations of pain, no arm-sweeping moments of his own inner angst, and yet all drama and emotion is contained in his music because he both knew how to compose works which were terrifically charged, but also immensely rich and subtle, yielding up differently satisfying reactions to the same work, when listened to over a period of time.

He's easy to dismiss! It's very easy to call him 'light' or to take on board the myth that he was an immature child-hooligan with a hotline to the angels, but the truth is that he was hard-working, conscientious, and very well-educated. Since his death, people have struggled with how to understand Mozart, and the error-filled Romantic concept of Mozart as being somehow 'one of them' has dogged him unsuccessfully ever since. I think it's held against him that he was plainly an establishment figure, while it's forgotten that this is because that's exactly where the work was, and at the end of the day, he was a working musician Mahlerian , millionrainbows , Ukko and 7 others liked this post.

Mar, 9. I have no doubt that there are many classical music listeners who are honestly underwhelmed by his music, but I think in some cases it's people just being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. You see this in every genre of music, and in every art form for that matter. If there is an artist whom "everybody" likes, or who is "too popular," someone will try to knock that artist down just to show how against-the-grain their thinking is, how they refuse to follow the masses, etc.

It's a form of snobbery. I've seen threads on Amazon about how the Beatles were seriously overrated, and you can see it here sometimes when people say the same about Beethoven, Bach, and so on. I have no doubt there are threads on the Internet somewhere about what a hack writer Shakespeare was.

AGain, I'm not saying this is the case for all Mozart-bashing, nor even for most of it. But it does exist. Mar, Mozart shows us that the more music becomes concerned with "expressing emotion," the less it becomes concerned with the formal elements of music themselves, which are true, pure, "abstract" musical meanings, not so much emotions. We could call these "states of being" rather than overt emotion.

Much overt "emotion" in "emotional" music is simply "dramatic gesture," which is in a sense empty, is non-essential, and can even be faked or over-done. I'm not saying this is bad, because, after all, "art is artifice. In instrumental Romanticism, although it was music divorced from drama, it still managed to evoke emotion, and had residual traces of drama, accomplished by means of "dramatic gestures.

I guarantee you this little ditty would gain profound emotion. The Mozart Piano Sonata No. It is "playful" and brings delight, but even its nickname "Sonata Facile" reveals that it is considered more a motoric display of technique rather than a vehicle for Mozart's "feelings. The piece, and much of Mozart, manages to evoke an affect in us, a "state of being," without using any overt narrative or dramatic content.

What's the problem with the music beign Dionysian? Sonata , ptr , Misologos liked this post. Originally Posted by millionrainbows. Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' is an example of a piece that leans towards the expressive, Dionysian side. Mozart with Brahms is representative of the 'order' side.

Originally Posted by dionisio. What's the problem with the music being Dionysian? This is a question people are not allowed to answer.