danielescarpetti wrote:I am talking about a fact: Beethoven's recordings and concerts are unsurpassed, Mozart included! This is a fact, whether you like it or not.
unsurpassed in what sense? In the sense that they have had greater sales success in history? Or that they are qualitatively better?
They are holding a Mozart festival in Turin! Okay, but he is the only composer who, for free, like Beethoven's concerts are, can fill that square. I doubt Bach could do it, even though the undersigned would certainly go more willingly to Bach's than to Mozart's.
first step: Beethoven fills the halls. I agree.
Why is re-listening easier?
True, but why especially Beethoven, I repeat?
I would finally be truly curious to see the square in Turin where for 7 days they offer for free, not Ciurlionis' music, but Ligeti or Stravinsky. Let's see how many people are there?
and here I was expecting, in a certain sense, step two. He fills the halls and so we must think that it is "pop" music, popular, popularly known. Your second step, however, is not there. You continue to re-pose the question as if it were rhetorical. But in my opinion, it isn't rhetorical. Moreover, some rhetorical questions make me uncomfortable, because a rhetorical question tries to provoke consensus in the listener; it is a means of taking the opinions of the speaker for granted.
I might be wrong, but the rhetorical answer to Daniele's rhetorical question should be "because Beethoven is better". Setting aside the discussion about best and worst, which is difficult to address and, as we know, leads us to digital brawls, I offer other very, very, very simple reasons:
1) Beethoven is repertoire. Any orchestra that respects itself already has it ready. Therefore, in terms of price lists, it is more convenient (read: it requires fewer rehearsals);
2) Beethoven is known by the general public, even if, often, only by name. The strength of his name, however, is great, at least from an advertising point of view;
2 bis) he is not the only one known, but he is the only very well-known one, and part of the repertoire, for whom a complete symphonic cycle can be produced without excessive production efforts. You cannot do a complete cycle of anything by Bach, and orchestras do not have it in their repertoire. No one would care about complete cycles of Schumann or Schubert, alas.
3) Beethoven is not what is done most. If we limit ourselves to the orchestra, then perhaps yes, but I remind you that the monopoly on "village fair" music is firmly held by the national-populist Peppino Verdi. Because he was on the thousand-lire note.
