> Mozart make extremely catchy music like Justin Beiber. Mozart was the quintessential "Dark Forest" composer, hiding musical sentience in plain sight of light

> Mozart make extremely catchy music like Justin Beiber. Mozart was the quintessential "Dark Forest" composer, hiding musical sentience in plain sight of light classical period textures. Here he is with 2 measures of a simple major key "Justin Bieber" clarinet sequence interleaved with 2 measures from the strings that keep modulating to minor keys: https://youtu.be/xdVo0MsJMOc?t=1074 https://youtu.be/xdVo0MsJMOc?t=1074 Keep listening to the section marked "Tutti" in the score for a re-orchestration and reharmonization of that same clarinet sequence, but now in a surprisingly lush, chromatic style similar to Wagner or Brahms. It quickly disappears, too. Similarly, Bach's own output is encoded inside Mozart's. E.g., the coda of the Rondo in A Minor doubles as a two-part invention, complete with invertible counterpoint between left- and right-hand. He also built a nifty hash table that could be used to efficiently generate and stream music over the internet. (Unfortunately, he didn't live long enough to patent and sell it to Yahoo for 6 billion dollars.)