Rock Emerges - Brits Emerge

Erm well Inthink it was the culture if you look at Europe during the late 17th C and 18th C many places suchas Germany and Austria were considered bastions of high brow culture and taste this includes music as you siad we had a few but have only in the last century and a bit got the recognition they deserve plus it was in our mind to take up and classical composeres we were more interrested in beating the french and building the empire on opium and drug dealing (plus many other samller factors such as many of te composers were wroking for the church and big names as there patrons which us Brits weren't to interested in etc).

Late 60's wise it was post war, the 'teenager' had been created as we know it who had disposable income and the effect the USA had on us both during the war and post war we took their blues, liked it and along with the likes of Elvis and Buddy Holly were able to devlop our own musca and musical style which then cmae to dominate the 'western music establishment'.

I know its not a complete history but i dont have time to research plus im sorry it sounds a little geeky but im a second year history student and have study/studying these epoches of history.  

Oh, you're not joking???

Comparing the "genius" of any rock band with the likes of Beethoven is misplaced, to say the least. Not one rock band has an entire back catalogue that could reasonably compare with Beethoven's 9th, Bach's B Minor mass or Mozart's Requiem.

And you're forgetting the fantastic British composers such as Byrd and Gibbons (who both pre-date Bach and the Italian composers), and the likes of Purcell.

TheLamb wrote: Throughout the history of music before rock became very popular in the 60's, there were not many british musicians that were really at the top of the scale (In the exception of Benjamin Britten and George Handel, which was actually german but lived most his life in london... But still no british composer could be compared with Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Schuman ect...). The best and most famous classical composers were German, Austrian, Italian and from other european countries. There were very few significantly important british musicians, but then rock music was born, and throught the history of rock the most important and influential geniuses were british....   HOW COME? Why did all the british geniuses have to wait until the 60's?   What do you think?

It reads as if you're saying that there were these Genius composers around in Europe hundreds of years ago, and the only time Britain had Genius composers was in the 1960s.

The overriding implication is clear to me that you're saying that Rock musicians are Genius composers at the same level as the European masters.

And you overlooked the Genius of Byrd, Gibbons, Tallis, Weelkes, Dowland et al.

What did you actually mean?