Best mazurkas music according to redditors

As far as your point about lyrics, in my experience what makes it hard to get into music without lyrics is probably one of two things (or both):

(1) the lack of a melody that is easy to follow.

(2) the lack of an explicit meaning given to the music.

For me, I tend to have problem #2 to some extent, because when I listen to popular music I tend to have visions about the music in my mind. And those visions stem to some extent from the title of the song and the lyrics (both of which are often lacking in classical music). So not having lyrics makes it hard to picture something onto which your imagination can latch. It's just sounds, with little to no indication by the composer on what the music might be about. Heck there's a lot of classical musicians that adopt the "Absolute Music" doctrine, wherein music is about nothing in particular.

What a lot of people like to do to "remedy" this is make up their own "story" about the music (e.g. think of a loved one when listening to a slow movement). Sometimes I do this but to be honest it just happens naturally (in other words, I don't consciously tell myself Ok let's think about this or that).

I know I'm not offering concrete advice, but perhaps all of this might give you something to think about.

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As far as where to begin, I'm sure you'll easily find some advice on the web. For what it's worth I remember starting with this collection back in th day. https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Classical-Music-Johann-Sebastian/dp/B000001VU5

I still think it's a nice little starting point.

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|name|Ludwig van Beethoven|
|about artist|Ludwig van Beethoven (16 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a composer of the transitional period between the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He was born in Bonn, Germany. Beethoven is widely regarded as one of the greatest masters of musical construction, sometimes sketching the architecture of a movement before he had decided upon the subject matter. He was one of the first composers to systematically and consistently use interlocking thematic devices, or “germ-motives”, to achieve unity between movements in long compositions. ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Ludwig van Beethoven))|
|album|Classics in the Air, released Apr 1985|
|track|Moonlight Sonata|
|about track|Sonata in C sharp minor, op. 27, no. 2 - First Movement (Adagio Sostenuto) Correction This is not the entire Piano Sonata No. 14 ("Moonlight Sonata"), but only the first of three movements. The second and third movements are Allegretto and Presto Agitato, respectively. Beethoven's 14th piano sonata, AKA "Moonlight Sonata," was composed in the summer of 1801 in Hungary, on an estate belonging to the Brunswick family. The composition was published in 1802 and was dedicated to Beethoven’s pupil and passion, 17 years old Countess Giulietta Gucciardi. The Sonata is one of the most popular piano sonatas from Beethoven’s creation. It is also named “The Moonlight Sonata” by poet Ludwig Rellstab who, in 1832, had this inspiration on a moon lit night on the banks of the Lucerna River. Some biographers make the connection between the unshared love the composer held for Giulietta Guicciardi and the sonorities of the first part. Even more so, this sonata was dedicated to Giulietta, the musical theme of the first part being borrowed from a German ballad as Wyzewa observed. The piano sonata has three parts. The parts of the sonata give the impression of a whole first of all through the elaboration of themes and motifs. Consequently, the main musical theme of the first part becomes very elaborate in the second part, and the second motif of the main theme will be encountered in the first theme of part III.|
|images|album image, artist image|
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|tags|classical, instrumental, romantic, classic, rock|
|similar|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Franz Joseph Haydn|
|metrics|lastfm listeners: 1,615,984, lastfm plays: 25,970,665, youtube plays: 153, radd.it score: 8.25|


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