288 | Max Richter on the Meaning of Classical Music Today

1370.751 - 1402.745 Max Richter

Well, yeah. So what happened is that there was this sort of – there was like a historical view of – like musical, inverted commas, progress. And what happens is that as music history goes along, it moves from Bach into the Romantics, and the Romantics basically add dissonance. Now dissonance is like tones which are foreign to the chords that we're hearing, foreign to the key that we're hearing.