Learn to Love Classical Music Today
It has never been so exciting, easy, and cheap to find your way into classical music — thanks to your your smartphone, music streaming, and a trick that changed my understanding of music forever
Seven years of piano lessons, two parents playing in a professional orchestra, and yet classical music didn’t interest me for a long time. Then, everything changed, thanks to technology. I want to share with you how I (re)discovered classical music – and how you can do it, too.
When I was nine, my parents came home unusually late from work for months. They were completely exhausted each time and groaned: “Mahler!” That had to be something really bad, I thought to myself, “Mahler.”
My parents were professional musicians in the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. My mother is a harpist, my father a cellist. And when I was nine, the orchestra recorded all ten symphonies of the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler on CD. Such a project takes months, maybe years, and that really takes it of you.
Although I come from a family of musicians, only later in my life I found that classical music is also for me. I know what it’s like not to understand this music. After seven years of reluctantly taking…
