[shibumi]

Mozart’s music is formulaic, repetitive and uses the same patterns over and over in a scripted, redundant fashion that seems to repeat the same themes in an uninventive, stilted and reiterative fashion.

And he does the same things over and over with simple embellishment on what are basic motifs that are patterned and reused.

And then he does that again.

And the pudenda thing too.

[DanZ]

And then he does that again. And the pudenda thing too.

Thanks, very funny. Mozart's music is just a tremendous joy to listen to.

as the old saying goes - those who cannot - teach, and in this case this article's author is a real Effete moron who is over educated and thus totally stunted

[miss marmelstein]

I wonder if anyone here actually has seen a Mozart opera in a theater. They are revolutionary; brilliant, beautiful, funny, tragic - the very essence of good theater. (This is a general question not aimed at you in particular.)

[Sirius Lee]

And he does the same things over and over with simple embellishment on what are basic motifs that are patterned and reused.

You must really hate Bach fugues.

[Lazamataz]

Eminem is pretty good.

[NFHale]

And yet, here it is, 200+ years later, and his music is still listened to, enjoyed, performed, and just plain loved over and over again by MILLIONS the world over.

Which is all any artist could hope for.

[equaviator]

When you put it that way, Mozart’s music is probably as far from jazz as it can possibly be. Where’s the fun in that?

[JAKraig]

Mozart’s music is formulaic, repetitive and uses the same patterns over and over in a scripted, redundant fashion that seems to repeat the same themes in an uninventive, stilted and reiterative fashion.

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You are SO wrong!

While there is some of that in some of his music it is not in his choral music, it certainly isn't in the Requiem. There is nobody who could do variations on a theme better than Mozart, he would have loved Jazz. The style of the day was to have themes in music and to modify the themes without repetition was a difficult thing to do, he did it best. Variations on a theme may sound like formula music, like computer code perhaps, but, it is not that simple. When Mozart did it he often changed not just the time signature but often key and not a simple change of key, often from major to minor and then back. To listen to Mozart's Requiem is to be lifted into Heaven for a few minutes.

[Organic Panic]

In other words. Pop music. That’s why people like it.

[fella]

Why doesn’t the author write some better music?

[sargon]

Mozart’s music is formulaic, repetitive and uses the same patterns over and over in a scripted, redundant fashion that seems to repeat the same themes in an uninventive, stilted and reiterative fashion.

Yes, that seems to be the judgement of history. Especially the "uninventive" part. "Too many notes"...</sarc>