i don't know, for one. and neither do the creators of classicaloid, and neither do the best of music historians, and neither do you. everything we know about long-dead people is nothing more than a reflection of former literature and current societal standards, which of course feeds into a loop of where that former literature came from, and then we surely must consider the biases of those who knew the people personally all those years ago, which of course is informed by the attitude of the figures being analysed, which is further distorted by the world around them…

that is to say; it is all a reflection of a reflection, be it what god would mark as a ‘blemish’ in historical factoids written by some nascent biographer, or a wilful misinterpretation to make the life of a real life person more ‘digestible’ and accessible and defined and… well, inhuman. naughts and ones. perhaps we all invent a ‘jolly’ in our minds whether we like it or not.

reflect once more.