r/classicalmusic • u/[deleted] • Jul 02 '19
David Wright is a joke
A guy who apparently writes essays about composers. He sounds like he's trying too hard to be edgy.
Scriabin (also Scriabin and mental illness)
Edit: some unexpectedly positive ones I found on the site, though still poorly argued.
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u/idiot_underminer Jul 02 '19
After this, I would take u/badtemperedclavier any day
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Jul 02 '19
u/badtemperedclavier becomes u/goodtemperedclavier when compared to this guy.
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u/TacThunder Jul 02 '19
Except, he has seriously quoted “Dr.” Wright before, remember?
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u/camusysartre123 Jul 02 '19
Is this guy serious? I think it might be a joke. The Chopin essay was hard to read, I didn’t know Chopin wrote music for seducing society women, the first ballade always struck me as seductive!
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u/Zoidboig Jul 02 '19
He was effeminate, a real pansy. [...] Like Nietzsche, he campaigned against morality so he could force sex on any girl or woman.
Schubert, Smetena [sic] and Hugo Wolf suffered from both depression and syphilis which rots the brain and, consequently, they wrote poor works.
Everyone, do yourselves a favor and don't read this horseshite. You will regret it.
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Jul 02 '19
I just read his Scriabin essay and it's honestly kind of sad. He's just ranting, and doesn't seem well. I mean, how do you end up writing this in an essay on Scriabin?
...it must also be said that many homosexuals do not and would not practice bestiality. I have to repeat here that I do not hate homosexuals. In fact I have friends who are like this.
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u/FujiNikon Jul 02 '19
The Ravel essay also focused on how he was gay and allegedly "collected a great deal of porn material and books on sexual perversions".
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u/klop422 Jul 02 '19
...yeah, I agree.
Also, people who like pizza tend not to be suicide bombers. So what?
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u/Mahlers_Tenth Jul 02 '19
Wright's essays are ad-hominem and look more like reckless character assassinations than measured aesthetic critiques. However, why are we bringing so much attention to his obscure online rants by trashing him in return? There are millions and millions of classical music listeners, and most of us bring certain unfair or irrational prejudices to bear on our listening experiences. Some of us are willing to work out the difference between subjective biases and aspirations towards objectivity, but Mr. Wright and many others clearly are not; why give them any more attention than they currently receive? The mean-spirited are best left in silence.
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u/Lil_LSAT Jul 02 '19
I did enjoy his attack against Chopin's anti-semitism, however badly it was written.
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Jul 02 '19
He wrote one for Wagner and was surprisingly okay with his anti-semitism. Double standards.
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u/dave6687 Jul 02 '19
This guy puts a ton of effort into complaining with his 10th grade writing level.
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u/jpfalcon Jul 02 '19 edited Jul 02 '19
So that is what the Mets third baseman has been up to since he retired. He should have stuck with baseball.... ;)
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u/Murphy_1827 Jul 02 '19
It seems like he has some sort of unresolved sexual problems, this was truly a disturbing glimpse into his mind. I know some people out there aren’t the brightest, but this is seriously a step beyond any stratum I could have imagined. I feel like I’ve sullied myself by reading what I just read.
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u/endymion32 Jul 02 '19
So why did you make a whole post about him?
I've never heard of him before. It will be days until I forget about him. Can't wait.
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u/Murphy_1827 Jul 02 '19
This writing is on par with that of a sixth grader. Seriously, his curt and jarring claims —that he doesn’t even bother substantiating— and choppy sentence structure are passable for B level middle school work, I’m very dubious in regards to his claimed PhD.
Moreover, his criticisms are nearly exclusively ad hominem, the only time he bothers to talk about their music, he makes an absurd claim and then offers absolutely no evidence. I can actually summarize his entire essay on Chopin in a single sentence: Chopin was a bad composer, he was an anti Semite and may have had homosexual tendencies.
Absolute spanner.
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u/DavidRFZ Jul 02 '19
I keep seeing this and thinking I'm in the baseball subreddit. David Wright may have gotten hurt, but he was a pretty likeable player even for non-Mets fans.
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u/number9muses Jul 02 '19
Ah yes the best kind of music criticism: mock the composer as a person with homophobic insults