Remarks:
By far my favourite song from 1680. I am not a fan of classical music but still know this song because it made a huge comeback starting in 1968 and is now common at weddings throughout the Western world. It was in 1968 that Jean-François Paillard slowed it down and played it in a more Romantic style. In the 1970s it became popular in California, appearing in the Hollywood film “Ordinary People” in 1980. The rest is history. The Paillard version is what most people know. The video above is how it sounded in 1680.
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Abagond 
(https://youtu.be/JteREaN0JNQ?t=238)
Dear Abagond,
it’s somewhat a pity that you didn’t find (yet) an entry into the rabbit hole of orchestral music. There is something deep and rich to polyphony precisely played by a large body of instruments.
May I introduce you to Jessye Norman (if you didn’t know her already)?
She (well, her record) introduced me to the music of Richard Strauss, a German composer of the late 19th/early 20th century. Without his and his colleagues and the methods of composition film music wouldn’t be same.
Jessy Norman herself came from a middle class upbringing in Georgia and made a world career without limits. There was something in her voice that transcended the rather strict categories in classical music: albeit having a soprano voice she could easily and with great effect use different registers even down to low alto – without ruining her voice as most singers would if they tried.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessye_Norman
Pachelbels Canon however is actually simply a “4-chord-hit” as some thousands of pop songs.
Great explanation here (~ minute 1:40:
https://www.20k.org/episodes/progressionobsession
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@ wolframgothe
Thanks! I have heard of her. I will check her out.
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@ Abagond
Classical music is an enormous genre with many different styles. If you explore around in it, you might find that you like some parts more than others.
For instance, I have never been able to develop an ear for opera, despite several attempts. But I absolutely love much of the choral music (like Mozart’s Requiem or Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater).
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A year ago my favorite journalistic syndicate startet a series called “secret paths to classical music”. If you are interested – google translate does a pretty good job to translate from German to English:
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fkrautreporter.de%2Fserien%2F8-schleichwege-zur-klassik
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… and it goes without saying that everybody likes (loves?)
— Beethoven’s “5th Symphony”, and
— Wagner’s “Ritt der Walküren”
Ah, sweet, sweet memories of my years in Germany!
By the way, don’t even tell me that an African can’t “feel” Classical European Music because, you know…
… there is a reason why so many people in different corners of the earth do love Jazz, and it is because, … because…
It was made by humans!!!
If it something was made by humans, it can not be totally strange to me!
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@ Munubantu
Speaking of classical music, Germany, and Africans, have you ever seen any of Akim Camara’s videos? He is a child prodigy from Germany whose father is Nigerian.
This performance is when he was only 5 years old:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNCikMtZLJI)
And here he is at age 11 playing an insanely difficult virtuoso piece:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKN_trFP_Uk)
The most recent videos I’ve seen, he is conducting rather than playing:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwirExRLxfA) (Wagner!)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5CtNi6AP0E)
He is still a student, and I’m not sure whether he will choose to conduct or play (or both). But either way, I think he has a remarkable career ahead of him.
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And another Wagner overture…
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INLkfmDez-w)
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