Beethoven piano sonata in E-flat major, Op. 7

I write this as I listen to the piece shown in the title. As you can tell by the title of this post I want to talk about classical music. Specifically I want to talk about my thoughts on classical music from the background of knowing nothing about it. I should also mention that I’ve had two roommates that are piano performance majors so I have had a reasonable amount of exposure to the music and have had several conversations about it with them. The definition of classical music is intellectual music from what I know. Now from my understanding this means that classical music is music that is composed with music theory concepts in mind and with a good deal of thought going into what goes where and when. We all know what classical music sounds like. For people like me most classical music sounds fairly similar.

I want to talk about how or if classical music can become more popular with the general public. The main drawback is that most people cannot appreciate the music for the full value. We can appreciate it for how it sounds and if we like it or not but that’s pretty much it. We cannot understand why it sounds like something or why this sound follows the next one. So we can never fully understand the full picture. How would this become more popular? One answer for me is for classical music to be taught in the k-12 school system. So by the time a student becomes of college age they could listen to a piece of music and point out some of the basic concepts and maybe ideas of the piece. If it is not taught to kids then I personally cannot see how this will become more popular other then maybe hipsters will make it popular for a time.