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David Bowie is great, but if you were to catalogue his output, abilities, and achievements I think they would pale severely in comparison to Mozart. I can belie
by Tycho 12y ago
David Bowie is great, but if you were to catalogue his output, abilities, and achievements I think they would pale severely in comparison to Mozart. I can believe that music is overall just as great as ever, with the millions of contributors globally, but where are the towering geniuses?
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoI think that's not true. Its nice to extoll Mozart but their catalog might be commensurate, you'd have to do the legwork. I say, geniuses are all around us but we're acculturated to say 'the old masters can't be beat' without actually adding it up.
- Tycho 12y agoThe 'Complete Mozart' collection is like 180 discs. And he died age 35!
- vidarh 12y agoAnd most of it is not remembered by even most of those who likes his music. The reason his output is so huge is of course because he for several periods was employed as a composer and had to churn out large number of compositions. That's not to say that there's not lots of good material there, but it's not like his entire output is of sufficient quality to keep most people interested.
- Tycho 12y agoStill, I'd wager that if you pick a random Mozart piece it's got just as high a likelihood of quality as a random Bowie track. Secondly, I suspect that the situation whereby musicians these days aren't expected to pen a large quantity of compositions is one of the prime reasons for the mysterious shortage of Mozartesque prodigies.