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How did Mozart revolutionize music?

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How did Mozart revolutionize music?

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Mozart invented new ensembles. He wrote the first piano quartets (p, vn, va, vc) and the first work for piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn. In both of these he was followed but not surpassed by Beethoven and other composers. He didn’t invent the keyboard concerto but he did transform it and wrote the majority of the great Classical works in the genre. Again, Beethoven was much influenced by them; his third piano concerto in C minor was written in conscious imitation of Mozart’s great work (no 24) in the same key (look at the two opening themes), which B. greatly admired. M.’s most important innovation was the string quintet with two violas, in two of which (C major, G minor) you can hear some of his finest music; these also were imitated, though not to the same extent. He was not the first composer to write for the clarinet, but no earlier works and few later ones approach the stature of his concerto and quintet. He was the first composer since the Renaissance to treat the wind en

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