> I'm refuting OP's claim that people today are generally hearing something "particularly wonderful" in Mozart's output and applying that level of extraordinary

> I'm refuting OP's claim that people today are generally hearing something "particularly wonderful" in Mozart's output and applying that level of extraordinary output to music from the "age of Mozart." You are simply reading something that isn't really there. OPs original claim is clearly that the music production of the time was much larger than what survives (in popular culture) to this day, and that the surviving body of works has been selected for quality. Your point amounts to little more than insisting the time period shouldn't be called "the age of Mozart", which is fine for what it is: a discussion of nomenclature.