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To: IronJack

LOL That old saw? Mozart could do things Beethoven couldn’t do. Like write for the voice and make everything seem organic and not merely inserted for shock value...and was a better orchestrator.


12 posted on 01/27/2015 1:05:59 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges
Mozart could do things Beethoven couldn’t do.

Like die at 34.

Like write for the voice

Yeah, cuz no one's ever heard of the Ode to Joy or the Choral Fantasy. The former is the most powerful piece of choral music ever written. And the second is a dress rehearsal for the first.

and make everything seem organic and not merely inserted for shock value

Right. "Shock value," like what Wagner and Handel and Bach wrote ... What you call "shock value" I call "majesty."

...and was a better orchestrator.

Arguable. But so what? Beethoven was a composer, not an arranger.

Mozart had a gift. Beethoven was touched by God.

13 posted on 01/27/2015 2:14:34 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Borges

Mozart was a lyrical composer; many of his themes from his symphonies, concerti, etc., sound as if they are being sung, Bach was the greatest pure musician/composer ever—IMO. Beethoven put it all together adding emotion to brilliant writing; I think his symphonies pale in comparison to his chamber music.


25 posted on 01/27/2015 5:17:54 PM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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