Although I have been diving under the music category and have almost zero professional knowledge, when I saw the poster asking such a question, I wanted to complain. First of all, what is "transcendence"? Take two songs A and B and do a random survey. If most people think A sounds good and a small number of people think B sounds good, does A surpass B? Obviously art is not such a simple thing. Different people have different standards for what sounds good, and there is no definite answer; and some music, especially a lot of commercial music nowadays, may catch your ears with a nice melody when it first comes out, but over time you will find that it doesn’t sound good at all. Something.

The development of music has a huge context, especially Western classical music. Let me briefly talk about my opinion below. Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is roughly positioned as one of Beethoven's early works in his middle period. Some people say that it highlights the romantic elements of Beethoven's music. Indeed, Beethoven had a great influence on music throughout his life. His many breakthrough contributions, both in terms of musical expression and creative concepts, are almost unparalleled. This "Moonlight Sonata" is just one of the more popular works. I heard a teacher say that Beethoven's piano works established a set of piano music language, which is a symphonic language. If you want to fully grasp the charm of Beethoven's piano music, I suggest that you don't stop at a few popular works such as "Moonlight" and listen to Beethoven's late piano works, such as Piano Sonatas No. 27-32. The innovative thinking and expressiveness reflected in it can truly represent Beethoven's character, I think.

Of course, the musical language of the piano has gone through the so-called evolution. For example, the literary and poetic piano language created by Chopin is used in many romantic creations; the indescribable pairings in Schumann’s piano works Rhythm and other processing also deeply influenced later generations; Liszt also improved his piano playing skills... a lot; finally, the Impressionism pioneered by Debussy, a piano music creation concept similar to painting, is completely different from that of his predecessors. Different styles; then modernism, especially the avant-garde, will of course make a greater contribution. But these are not so-called "transcendences". The memory of computers can be 2G this year and 4G next year. This is called transcendence. With 4G memory, the price is almost the same as the 2G memory back then. All of us will replace the 4G memory and eliminate the 2G memory; but art is not In this way, a new genre and creative concept are proposed. Compared with the previous ones, it is not the difference between 4G memory and 2G memory, but drawing on the experience of the predecessors and having its own innovations, which is completely different from the formation of the predecessors. But beauty is indispensable. Of course, when it comes to quantitative things, we can talk about transcendence, such as complexity, which obviously becomes more complicated as you go forward. The difficulty of Liszt's piano music can surpass that of Beethoven, but these are all specific details. .

Having said so much, the summary is that ① music is indeed developing, but it does not mean that new ones are developed and old ones are eliminated, so there is no so-called transcendence, only in individual details ② Every development Each stage has its own unique beauty and different styles.

Finally, if you really want to experience the evolution of different styles of piano music, you can start listening to Bach's "Well Tempered" and experience the masterpieces of the Baroque period (when the piano just came out). Piano music (laying the foundation for many later music); then go to experience the very classical and exquisite piano music of Haydn and Mozart; and then Beethoven, from his early days to his later years, I personally feel that I can hear his growth process and the development of music. Evolution; then came early Romantic composers such as Mendelssohn and Schubert; then came the famous Chopin, whose typical poetic and picturesque piano music, as well as Schumann and Liszt, both of which were typical Romantic styles. There are also piano pieces by Brahms in his late period that have a rich inner feeling; then romanticism spread to Russia, and people like Scriabin and Rachmaninov wrote great Russian piano music. things; finally, you can also listen to the piano works of Debussy and Ravel, and feel the hazy impressionist style... After listening to so much, the author should roughly understand that music is just a development process, each has its own beauty, and there is no need to quantify it. Beyond.

I am not a professional. I have a lot of my own understanding of the above statement, and there are inevitably mistakes. I welcome your corrections...