And it was considered much more fulfilling, or much more edifying, to tell people about Bach and Beethoven.
Though she began her violin career learning Bach and Beethoven, Narayanan now studies classical Indian music under a guru.
If the avant-garde was still heard in the concert hall, the programme would be sugared with Mozart and Beethoven.
It may strike an eerie note that a computer could become a more prodigious composer than Mozart, Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven combined.
Bach and Beethoven were not above throwing folk-pop melodies into their works.
Recently scholars have shown increased boldness in turning posthumous fragments into, for instance, performable tenth symphonies by Schubert and Beethoven and a seventh by Tchaikovsky.
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To some critics, Brahms's right to be mentioned in the same breath as Bach and Beethoven was less a matter of musical worth than an accident of alliteration.
Haydn's horn concerto, Mozart's four horn concertos, and Beethoven's sonata for horn and piano were all written for natural horn, although they're usually played today on valve horn.
Co-op bosses have stressed the loudspeakers are mounted high up on the shop fronts in an effort to prevent yobs from putting in the boot on Bach and Beethoven.
With bombastic, garrulous music dedicated to their holy trinity of Led Zeppelin, the Who, and Beethoven, Black and Gass may send a generation of unsuspecting teens running to Liberace.
And you can mix and blend your instruments in ways that Beethoven and Mozart never could have imagined.
And there is Duke Ellington, Gustav Mahler, Ludwig van Beethoven and Dizzy Gillespie.
Both on stage and in his recordings he's played music ranging from the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms to music by modern masters such as Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen, and Elliott Carter.
I've read that it is forbidden in some quarters to play Beethoven and Mozart in Tehran.
To chase away rats, Nathaniel had two sticks on which he had scrawled the names Beethoven and Brahms.
Hitler came out of the most civilized society on Earth, the land of Beethoven and Goethe and Schiller.
Between the immensities of Beethoven and Britten came an evening centered on one man: the Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer.
When Ritter plays a concert with Hahn, at least half the audience is used to hearing Beethoven and Bach.
The parents of Beethoven and Mozart were musicians, while Chopin, Schubert, and Tchaikovsky had music-lovers, though not musicians, as their parents.
What a sight Nathaniel is, this lean African-American man lugging his cart full of instruments through hell, dreaming of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.
The procession band played the funeral marches of Chopin, Beethoven and Mendelssohn as it made its way along the deserted streets for the rehearsal.
While other young composers were plunging into new sounds, Sir Michael continued to immerse himself in the past, in the works of musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries, and finally, Beethoven, whom he had turned away from as a boy, fearing undue influence.
God, the Cleveland Browns, the mysteries of air travel and the glory of Beethoven.
Turning away, he talks rapidly and lightly, praising Beethoven, always Beethoven, complete with opus numbers.
They could not have foreseen it, or have realised it even afterwards, those elegant guests who assembled at Prince Lobkowitz's Vienna palace on a bitter December night in 1804 for the premiere of a new symphony by the wild and woolly Ludwig van Beethoven.
He has more time for reading, he notes philosophically, and for music Bach, Beethoven, a new-born interest in Mahler and, occasionally, some violin practice.
The Opus 110 Sonata reflects a terrible illness Beethoven endured, and his gratitude at recovering.
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Not that there's anything wrong with classical music, but Clark helped Beethoven roll over and tell Tchaikovsky the news.
But the jazz melodies of Billie Holiday and the lush symphonies of Beethoven were like a visceral experience for me.
As Beethoven grew more and more deaf, he seemed to turn increasingly inward, and many of his final works reflect his isolationist mood.
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