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Originally Posted by Nirvana69
The problem I find with Seraphim's argument is that he makes the assumption that everyone holds Mozart as an absolute, unquestioned genius. What about guys like me who just really never enjoyed Mozart's music or saw what the big deal was? I understand he had a lot of original ideas for the time and he was an innovator but when it really comes down to it, I just don't enjoy his music very much.
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Genius is not a product. Music is a product and there are a million different reasons why we like or dislike certain products.
Genius is a mental capacity. To imagine the kinds of things that Mozart, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, etc were able to imagine one needs a kind of mental capacity (genius) that is truly extraordinary. Those composers would not have been able to produce what we see as their best music if they lacked that seemingly superhuman capacity a math genius mght be able to calculate a cube root faster than a calculator.