/lit/ - Literature

>>22271394
Remember is that before the advent of modern recording/playback devices, music was something you would only hear on occasion. You'd get to hear Haydn's 35th symphony maybe once at its premiere and then never again in your life. You couldn't blast your favorite track over and over. Music was an event. You'd need to gather 2 violinists, a violist and a cellist at a dinner party in order to hear a string quartet, and then it was over. It wasn't ubiquitous and accessible as it is today, and people's relationship with it back then seems to imply a completely different experience than what we have nowadays. Mozart wasn't walking around Vienna wearing headphones.