So you prefer Haydn to Mozart? The latter was primarily a vocal composer and his instrumental music shows it. His music is also wonderully moody and completely lacking in artifice. I don’t see how any future stuff would have ‘blown away’ his best works. They cannot be improved upon.
Well...ya got me. Overall...no. But I do love Papa’s choral music. Mozart was a genius; Haydn was a craftsman. But, taste is still hard to argue. If I were an opera fan, I’m sure Mozart would be Nummer Eins...