I have only found out that I had Asperger this year (age 35), and by the same occasion found that several of my favourite classical composers are believed to have been Aspies too. This is the case of Mozart, Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss (not Johann).
That is amazing because that's almost the list of my favourite composers since I was a teenager. Most people know and like Mozart and Beethoven, but that is not the case for Bruckner and R. Strauss, who were my two favourite composers in my late teens. I always felt like their music matched my emotions in a way that non-classical music never could.
I like to listen to jazz, pop or rock music occasionally, but this is just to relax. It lacks the intensity of feelings of classical music. One thing that distinguishes Aspies from NT is the intensity with which they feel and perceive things. I suppose that therefore the more intense classical music, especially works by Aspie composers, are the better suited to Aspie emotions.
I also like Brahms, Liszt, Wagner and Shostakovich, and I suspect that at least Brahms and Shostakovich would have been Aspies as well.
According to Wikipedia "to adults, Brahms was often brusque and sarcastic, and he often alienated other people".
Shostakovich is described as an very introverted, withdrawn, nervous and obsessive man, but also as despotic and very direct. In later life, Krzysztof Meyer recalled, "his face was a bag of tics and grimaces".
That is amazing because that's almost the list of my favourite composers since I was a teenager. Most people know and like Mozart and Beethoven, but that is not the case for Bruckner and R. Strauss, who were my two favourite composers in my late teens. I always felt like their music matched my emotions in a way that non-classical music never could.
I like to listen to jazz, pop or rock music occasionally, but this is just to relax. It lacks the intensity of feelings of classical music. One thing that distinguishes Aspies from NT is the intensity with which they feel and perceive things. I suppose that therefore the more intense classical music, especially works by Aspie composers, are the better suited to Aspie emotions.
I also like Brahms, Liszt, Wagner and Shostakovich, and I suspect that at least Brahms and Shostakovich would have been Aspies as well.
According to Wikipedia "to adults, Brahms was often brusque and sarcastic, and he often alienated other people".
Shostakovich is described as an very introverted, withdrawn, nervous and obsessive man, but also as despotic and very direct. In later life, Krzysztof Meyer recalled, "his face was a bag of tics and grimaces".
But I also enjoy more contemporary composers like Philip Glass..
