Was Wolfgang A. Mozart really an human being?
His brain was without a doubt the greatest musical brain ever. I forget the name of the piece, but when he was nine there was this cathedral that had a piece of eight voiced polyphonic choral music that was considered so good they refused to let anyone look at the score. Each singer learned only their part and the score was kept locked away. Mozart heard it went home and wrote it down. My one and only problem with his music is that it doesn’t have the level of emotional intensity that Beethoven or Stravinsky does, but it begins to towards the end of his life (his Requiem in particular). Had he lived longer one can only speculate. Beethoven’s music wasn’t even close to as good as his until the Heroic peroid (in my and many other opinions) and even then they usally are pretty much tied. It’s Late Beethoven (Ninth symphony, Grosse Fugue and all of those late sonatas particularly the thirty first) that really pushes the greatest composer ever button towards Beethoven (once again in my opin
