3) Classical music covers the period from 1750 to 1820. Doing the math, that gives us a gap of 189 years, not 400. 259 years at the absolute maximum, supposing he only likes the very earliest classical music.

It sounds like he's talking about the genre in general, not the period, but that still doesn't excuse his limiting it to the baroque period. Not that I don't mind if he never comes Bach.