March 2007 Competition

Fair point.

Brass is good.
I am happy with a brass competition.

As am I.

I would be, if I didn't have exams

Originally Posted by Daniel

"He didn't really do anything ground-breaking".

Sure Mozart didn't do anything ground-breaking.
He certainly didn't do to the concerto what Beethoven did to the sonata... or to the string quintet what Haydn did for the symphony.
He didn't have the soloist enter in the first few bars, for the first time ever; a tradition to be followed, and taken to heart by the Romantics.
He also didn't write the first operas ever to be continuously performed from their first performance up to the modern day, operas which are considered to be among the very finest of all written opera, and which were far ahead of their time.
He didn't invent the piano quartet, and then have them rejected for publication because they were too difficult, musically, and otherwise.
He also didn't write what is considered by musicologists as being the only trio music written after Bach, that equals it.

He didn't do much, did he?

And still in the end, it's all due to your own personal taste.

I agree that Mozart was revolutionary, probably mostly through influence rather than directly, but just to play devil's advocate:

If the piano had actually existed earlier, I'm sure plenty of composers would have seized upon it and invented the piano quartet before he just happened to write one. Also, Gluck's Operas are still performed and enjoyed. Also, he couldn't write fugues, by his own admission (The less said about that organ piece, the better). Then again though, no-one's really been able to do that since Bach, nor have they really wanted to unless as a gimmick, exercise or 'showy-off' thing.

So, are we having another of these or not?

Can we have a July composition contest?

We're already running the Duet Competition.

So there's not going to be any more of these little ones?