Classical music.

[Irish_Graham]

I absolutely adore classical music and this thread has come about just from a post I just did in another forum about cutting back on the things of this world and spending more time with our Lord.

I know some of this music is deeply rooted in occult teaching ie. Wagner's "Des Ring Der Nebelungen" and some of Mozart's darker stuff just before he died, and this side of classical music I avoid, but some of it is so beautiful and uplifting that I cannot listen to it without thinking about our Lord in absolute worship and thinking that ultimately this came from Him through the work of a man on Earth eg Beethoven 9th Symphony nearly always gives me this feeling of wanting to spring to my feet and cry out to Him!!

So my question is 2 fold, are you a fan of this type of music, and do you think its in any way subversive or soul destroying to listen to? I always pray for guidance, and have had my prayers very clearly answered at times on this very subject when on listening to some of the stuff I used to listen to before I was saved eg. Led Zep, I actually became nausious and knew it wasnt right, but with classical music Ive never had such feelings, and as such to tend think its ok once, as with everything, it doesnt take a hold of me and become and obsession and ultimately lead me away from God. I will never allow that to happen, with anything.

Any thoughts?

[Constant]

I love classical music and I see no harm or wrong doing by listening to it and enjoying it.

[Avodah]

I enjoy classical music, and I don't see anything wrong with it.

[RustyAngeL]

Yes I like it too. One of my favorite composers is Bach.

[Guest shiloh357]

I definitely enjoy classical music. I love all six Brandenburg Concertos by Bach, I love Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Rossini, Verdi, Handel's Watermusic, and the Royal Fireworks. I have a CD box set of the 21st century Messiah. It is basically Handel's Messiah using only period instruments familiar to Handel. It is an attempt to reproduce the Messiah exactly as it would have been heard in Handel's day. They also used the same number of singers that Handel would have used, to do the choral arrangements.

[Irish_Graham]

Great stuff folks.

As I said in my opening post, some of this music is deeply rooted in the occult, but a lot of it I would personally deem Christian music and its sole "raison d'etre" is for worshipping God.

Mozart's Laudate Dominum is a great example of this, the soprano's voice in that almost moves me to tears at times.

[Guest shiloh357]

I know what you mean about the occultic stuff. Mozart's Requiem is very, very dark. I had it on in the house, and had to shut it off. I just threw the CD away. It was some of the creepiest stuff I had ever heard.

[Irish_Graham]

Yeah I know what you mean. I stay away from it myself. Wagner's Ring as I mentioned earlier is worse though. Its all about Norse mythology and is very very dark and satanic.

Mozart's music started to go that way when he knew he was dying and started to drink heavily. His earlier music was quite the opposite though. Beethoven can be quite dark as well, but some of his music is the most uplifting and beautiful you'll ever hear. His Emperor Concerto is a work of pure romanticism genius, and personally when I listen to this and to the 9th Symphony, and always think God gave the world this music just using Beethoven as the messenger. Stunning sound.

[Guest shiloh357]

Yeah I know what you mean. I stay away from it myself. Wagner's Ring as I mentioned earlier is worse though. Its all about Norse mythology and is very very dark and satanic.

Mozart's music started to go that way when he knew he was dying and started to drink heavily. His earlier music was quite the opposite though. Beethoven can be quite dark as well, but some of his music is the most uplifting and beautiful you'll ever hear. His Emperor Concerto is a work of pure romanticism genius, and personally when I listen to this and to the 9th Symphony, and always think God gave the world this music just using Beethoven as the messenger. Stunning sound.

Are you familiar with www.Beethoven.com? You can listen to classical 24 hrs a day. It's claim to fame is, "Classical music without the attitude." They have it set up where you can listen either on Windows Media Player for free, or if you want to pay for more perks, you can subscribe to their "Real Player" it comes with all kinds of extras

[apothanein kerdos]

Music, so long as not created for the purpose of sin, inherently brings glory to God.

There ya go