Allovertheworldpeoplelistentoclassicalmusic.Classicalmusicisdifficulttodescribe.Itmeansdifferentthingstodifferentpeople.
SomefamousclassicalcomposerswereBach,Vivaldi,HaydnandMozart.Intheirmusic,theydidnottellastoryorshowstrongemotions.Theywantedtomakebeautifulandinterestingmusicwithlovelysounds.
Thencomposersstartedtoexpressideas.Theytoldstoriesaboutloveandwar.Theyalsowroteaboutreligion.Sometimestheycomposedmusicforholidays.Throughtheirmusiccomposersshowedstrongemotions.SomeofthesecomposerswereBeethoven,Schumann,Chopin,Mendelssohn,WagnerandTchaikovsky.
Classicalmusichasbeenpopularforhundredsofyears.Bachwroteabout300yearsago.Beethovenwroteabout200yearsago.AndTchaikovskywroteover100yearsago.
Sometimespeopleclosetheireyeswhilelisteningtoclassicalmusic.Itisdifficulttounderstandsometimes.Whentheyclosetheireyestheyhavetothinkaboutthemusic.