With Mozart you really have to get up to K. 400 and above for the music to get really interesting.
Not really - his Symphonies 25, 29 and Violin Concertos 3,4,5 are all masterpieces and cornerstones of the repertoire. His Flute and Harp concerto is the most beautiful thing ever written for either of those instruments, especially the second movement, which has other-worldly beauty. I could go on and on...
“With Mozart you really have to get up to K. 400 and above for the music to get really interesting.”
Think about that.
The final number is K620something.
620 published works. Some of them are Operas well over an hour long. Symphonies of 4 movements, and the 4 count as only 1 K(ochel) number. The 4 movements are just 1 of the 620. The 27 Piano Concertos . . . 3-4 movements each. Each one well over an hour long.
And he died at 35. No computers with music composition tools. He had his brain, a piece of paper and a quill pen to dip in inkwells. Look at those numbers above and think about how many times that quill pen was dipped and how many notes were put on the paper.
We’re talking about inhuman productivity. Even the folks who “prefer someone else” know what those numbers mean.
So here we are 220 yrs later, and there he is.
Want to jaw drop a bit more? The first 120 of those years . . . no recordings of any kind. The pieces of paper, when read by those who could read them . . . they understood. They knew. That’s why he’s here at 220 yrs.