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I must agree that above benefits are really true. I, myself believe that music can remove my stress from work. Honestly, I can't work without my favorite music. I was not aware of the better impact of classical music. an d to that, I want to thank you for sharing this. I feel that I can switch on listening classical music for a more relaxed atmopshere.

Lest we send business school students out into the world with erroneous information (not that it stops them), I should point out that program music was around long before Berlioz--Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" is a famous yet overlooked example (the original score actually indicates what's being portrayed in each section of each movement). The "idée fixe" originated with the "Symphonie Fantastique," and actually is not a prominent technique in "Faust." Although, like everyone else, he was influenced by the larger-than-life figure of Beethoven, Berlioz's idol was, in fact, the composer Christoph Willibald von Gluck, who revolutionized French opera in the generation before Berlioz; the operatic aspect is probably a more helpful framework for listening to "Faust." And one more thing: Scriabin died in 1915, so I'd hardly call his music "Contemporary" (though thinking that 100-year-old stuff is on the cutting-edge might explain a lot of the marketing campaigns I'm constantly being subjected to). Had one gone to the BSO in the two weeks following the Berlioz, one could have heard two premieres by actual, living composers. My guess is that the author doesn't like modern music, but that's not permission to blithely distort musical history. Scriabin is better characterized as a late-Romantic Russian Impressionist, if you must resort to labels. (Oh, and the fabled "Mozart effect"? Subsequent studies have shown it to be largely illusory. The music's still sublime, though.)