By “important” I mean that it didn’t just become hugely popular, but it also changed a music genre or launched an entirely new one, or otherwise made a huge impact on music in general.

  • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Any specific era? I mean, I’m mostly into classical music and I would consider quite a few of those old pieces… hugely important, to say the least: much more meaningful than many of the more recent productions. But, even though I’ve a much more limited understanding of it, I also consider some more recent and even a few contemporary artists… hugely important ;)

      • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
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        19 hours ago

        Album doesn’t mean much to me I’m afraid. I mean an opera (which literally means ‘a work’) could be considered an album? What about a symphony (which could means ‘a body of (harmonious) sounds’)? And what about all tho the other types of music?

        They were not released as ‘albums’ (no disc players, back then) but they were released as a coherent ensemble one was expected to listen to as a whole, in a certain order. And they were released as printed editions too as, back then, owning music sheets was the equivalent of what purchasing albums is/was to us: people would buy them in order to be able to read the score and to play it by themselves or with friends ;)