Bad headline: "Miles Davis is not Mozart" Besides being trivially true, MOZART WAS A MASTER IMPROVISOR!! Classical musicians were great improvisors for genera

Bad headline: "Miles Davis is not Mozart" Besides being trivially true, MOZART WAS A MASTER IMPROVISOR!! Classical musicians were great improvisors for generations… until the late 19th century boon of the symphony orchestras and all these conservatories focused on getting musicians to follow the notes perfectly and watch the conductor and ignore creativity. In the 20th century, improvisation was rubbed out of classical music. Today's classical pianists are pathetic improvisors. But don't think Mozart or Beethoven or Bach etc. were like that. They were much more like the jazz pianists. This study is mostly just further proof of the tragic impoverishment of classical tradition over the last few generations.