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No, that is total bs. You hear what you want to hear. Music works on a subconscious emotional basis and doesn't necessarily have the same effect as the composer intended. Its general, abstract, and vague. There is no story. Even if the composer used a story to help him come up with the music doesn't mean you will experience even a similar story or a story at all. (although music isn't specific it tends to still have similar effects on similar people)
The music should effect you in ways you don't understand. I love Beethoven's symphonies... theres so much power that it makes me want to shake my fists when here something like the intro to the 5th.
Don't expect there to be a story. If you don't feel the music then find different music. Its that simple. You don't have to get emotional over it either. If if you like it then you like it, nothing more and nothing less. It doesn't mean you are a savage if you don't like Mozart... just means you don't like him. (doesn't mean mozart is bad either.... but for some reason his music is not connecting with you(but later on it might))
Basically the whole idea of the story thing is essentially to popularize music. Some think its easier to understand music if you can visualize it but that is wrong. Music is only about one sense and that is the sense of sound and how it bleed's over into the other senses, at least possibly.... its not about trying to make it work better. If you want that you look at opera.
Note that there are a lot of things in music to listen for besides the immediate sonic impression. It opens up a whole can of worms but can help you get more out of music.
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