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The 'Complete Mozart' collection is like 180 discs. And he died age 35!

• vidarh 12y ago
  And 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 ago
    Still, 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.