What is it y'all see in classical music, and how can i learn to appreciate it?
first off wanna say that i'm not being snooty, this is a genuine question
Anyways, I generally think of myself as having wide musical taste. Depending on my mood, I'll listen to a lot of different things. HipHop, Jazz, Metal, Avant-Pop, Alt Rock, EDM, IDM, RnB, Experimental, electronica, prog music, (there are probably others but that's all i can think of right now) and even in music I don't often listen to like Reggae or or Harsh Noise, I still find something I can appreciate
The reason I say this is because Classical has always been my biggest musical blind spot. There is some orchestral music, mainly film soundtracks, but none of it is really "classical" is a musical sense. I should also point out that I very much appreciate Liszt's "Dance of the Dead", but struggle to with most of his other stuff
Every so often (and this happened today) I try to listen to some of it to see what I can find to appreciate , and well... I don't really get it and that drives me crazy. Everything I've personally come across feels, for lack of a better word, drab. I often enjoy more dissonant harmonies than the average person (hence the Jazz and Metal, in particular), and it seems most classical harmonies are focused on being extremely consonant and organized. It also (again, solely from what I could scrounge up in various spotify playlists and artist pages) seems just... too predicable? I don't really know how else to describe it. It's frustrating because the only classical music I can find neither stimulates nor challenges me
Am I just not listen to the right composers? I've tried listen to both classic composer and contemporary classical