[Nonstatist]

Why does the subject arouse such intense interest?

Um, he was only 35 years old and he was the greatest compsoer of all time. . Can someone come up with a stupider question?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Um, he was only 35 years old

True

and he was the greatest compsoer of all time.

Very subjective claim. I like Mozart, but he is a little shallow for my taste. Mozart learned quite a bit from Bach, and his music was the better better for it. If I could take music from only one composer to a desert island, I would get tired of Mozart after a while. I never get tired of Bach.

I can instantly identify most major Mozart works. If I hear a random piece from The Well Tempered Clavier, I can identify maybe 25% of them.