March 2007 Competition

I like the idea of a sonata competition, .. too bad we just had one. How about a flute concerto movement? By the way, the text in my signature is old and I have no current project... but I'm sort of always "working" on concerto ideas and themes, but I've never begun writing.

What's wrong with a brass quintet?

What's wrong with a brass quintet?

To quote myself "Eww, brass."

Ewww, Mozart.

Whatcha gonna do about it?

Originally Posted by Mark

Ewww, Mozart.

Whatcha gonna do about it?

Ooohhh. You are playing with fire there.

Nothing, because I know you're kidding or lying to yourself. Probably a little bit of both.

I just fail to see what's so great about Mozart and why he is compared to Beethoven and Bach in terms of 'genius'. He didn't really do anything groudbreaking apart from write way too many symphonies that sound way too alike. This is my opinion. You are entitled to your own opinion and to disagree with mine.

"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?