[IronJack]

There is certainly a joy to Vivaldi's work that I find lacking in other composers. Bach was too serious. Handel and Purcell could be downright ponderous. Mozart was capricious and too often self-indulgent.

But Haydn had it. And so did Telemann. And occasionally, Scarlatti.

And of course Beethoven could do it all.

[dmz]

Very different musical tools available to the Baroque, Classical period and the Romantic composers. Hard to adequately compare them in that light. JMO.