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Originally Posted by Ferkungamabooboo
Fux calling classicalism to be "insanity" is correct. According to accepted cultural norms of music, classicalism broke many rules - in the same way that free improv did for 1950s jazz - it was noise, to their ears. However, that it was noise cannot make it inherently "better" music, any more than classical was "better."
A negative attitude towards either stunts the true musical growth that should be sought in music.
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Source plz?
I don't know what you're calling classicism, but there's the Vienna Classic, before that there's the Mannheim school and the Berlin school, all at the same time you got the Galant Style with Händel and so on... I don't know WHEN he said it but Fux lived just until the late Baroque. He was probably talking about the galant style, considering that was the "new" thing at the time.
But, woah, it wasn't noise at all to the people back then. In fact the whole trend was to move AWAY from public-scaring crap like super complicated counterpoint towards a simpler style of harmony/theory. IF Fux said it when I think he did, he was just angry the polyphonic schools were sorta getting (or were rather) passé at the time nearing his death.
Some context here, yay.
PS: Händel was stupidly popular, as was CPE Bach, Haydn, etc. These are all people who wrote in the style Fux probably hated. So... if anything, people went crazy about it and it became a super-trend~