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What were you playing? Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi? I bet you weren't playing something that was put together by a bunch of money-hungry executives whose job security is based upon how well their next film/piece of music does financially. I'm sorry mate but art and commerce DO NOT mix. Never have, never will.
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Joe... that statement proves you know nothing about music or how the composers you mentioned above marketed there talents. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & Vivaldi were whores.. they crank out pieces for pay by the thousands. All four of the composers you mentioned did it for pay after they found they had a markable product.. all four mased fortunes. Mozart would crank out 10 to 15 pieces a day.. some of the pieces are so simalar that to this day most expepts can not tell them a part. Mozart used to just change the name of the piece and sell it to serveral different buyers. While he was extremely talented he was not nearly as creative as people make him out to be. He was a master as marketing himself as much as he was a master of his music. Also... Mozart as well as ALL of the gained huge fortunes from there talents. Bach was paid what amounts to 150,000 U.S. dollars for the Brandanberg's which amounts to only 7 minutes of music. Mozart lived in the lap of luxuary nearly all his life. Vivaldi did nearly the same and a died as one of the most wealthy men in his counrty.
Beethoven is one of the few that truly did it for the love music. He was nearly death when he wrote his last three Symphonies. However.... When he was commissioned to write his 9th Symphony he was paid what amounts to $750.000.00 in todays wages.
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I'm sorry mate but art and commerce DO NOT mix. Never have, never will.
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So... it appears they mix after all.
My views on movies is that they are for mindless entertainment. Its nice to see something done well now and then. but to me its the same thng as going to the bar or bowling or something that requires no brain waves to enjoy. I dont have enjoy its artistic value to be entertained. Sometimes you just have to have fun.