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I agree it's uneven and not as good as Mozart's other celebrated works. But I think all the great composers have lots of uneven pieces as it is without resortin
by Steko 11y ago
I agree it's uneven and not as good as Mozart's other celebrated works. But I think all the great composers have lots of uneven pieces as it is without resorting to (often speculative) excuses as to why, they just are.
As for Beethoven, actually his famous reply to learning of the authorship issue was 'If Mozart did not write the music, then the man who wrote it was a Mozart.'
- mojuba 11y agoHmmm. That's strange because I remember from one of the books I found that Beethoven regarded requiem as an amateurish work and even Mozart's worst ever, in fact without knowing the whole story behind it. A bit extreme of course, but he was right to an extent.