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Originally Posted by Seraphim
In fact, anyone who listens carefully can easily hear the compositional struggles of Beethoven in his music when played on the same program with Mozart. I once had the opportunity to hear Beethoven's 7th played (by the superb Boston Baroque) immediately after an unplanned performance of Mozart's 29th (which substituted an aria when singer had called off at the last minute) and the contrast in quality was incredible. I'm not saying Mozart's 29th is better music (it's certainly less ambitious) but it certainly had a level of polish and cohesiveness that Beethoven's 7th lacked in comparison. It was like stepping out of a Rolls Royce and into a rickshaw.
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You have an overly active imagination.
You are letting your personal bias show.
Which of course, removes a great deal of crediblility from your stance on this whole discussion.
Simply because you are unable to appreciate the Beethoven for what it is, a masterpiece, and have the perfectly subjective notion that the Mozart is "more polished", will not make it an objective comparison nor material to support a stance like the one you've been promoting in this thread.
All that to say that, basically, you have just proven yourself wrong with a single phrase.