Beethoven or Mozart?

[Plinko]

Who was better?

[CheeseMonkeys]

Mozart was better IMO. Both Great musicians though.

[Sleek]

I voted beethoven purely for 5th symphony.

I prefer Bach to them both though.

[Ethan A. Hawley]

Mozart was a pretty-boy, rich kid that never skipped a meal. Beethoven was a tortured and lonely soul grasping for meaning and passion in his life through his music. The ever-persistent, annoying eighth notes in nearly all of Mozart’s music conjure up the very vision of someone skipping through life in the park. Beethoven wrote to express his emotion and passion. Mozart wrote for commission.

[Plinko]

Mozart was a pretty-boy, rich kid that never skipped a meal. Beethoven was a tortured and lonely soul grasping for meaning and passion in his life through his music. The ever-persistent, annoying eighth notes in nearly all of Mozart’s music conjure up the very vision of someone skipping through life in the park. Beethoven wrote to express his emotion and passion. Mozart wrote for commission.

In his earlier years, maybe Mozart was a pretty-boy, rich kid. I don't see how this has to do with anything in terms of his music though. To say his music is emotionless is completely ridiculous. It's not as if Mozart thought of his music as just work and did it for money. He clearly enjoyed it, and in his later years, ended up quite poor, with both his parents dying before him. "His music conjures up the very vision of someone skipping through life in the park". Sure, some of his music, especially earlier was very joyful, I see no problem in that. Joy is an emotion, and he expressed it. But what about the later works like his Mass in C Minor and his Requiem?

Imo, both composers wrote extremely emotionally-based music, and it could be fair to say that Beethoven's music expressed more pain and sadness than Mozart's overall. But this is simply two different view points, joyful emotion is no less effective than painful emotion.

[asdfkjhg]

Mozart was a pretty-boy, rich kid that never skipped a meal. Beethoven was a tortured and lonely soul grasping for meaning and passion in his life through his music. The ever-persistent, annoying eighth notes in nearly all of Mozart’s music conjure up the very vision of someone skipping through life in the park. Beethoven wrote to express his emotion and passion. Mozart wrote for commission.

Music doesn't have to be sad to be good. :rolleyes:


It does help though..

[Itsamadhouse12]

*awaits amadeus to post*
mozart was better because he was an absolute nutjob

[pantomime]

Both incredibly important in the music world during their time and our own. They wrote in different times with different instruments at their disposal and for different medias for the most part. They are both great in their own respect.

[sweet]

They were both geniuses. Mozart had all of it in his head a didn't have to change anything when he wrote it down. Also Beethoven in his later years went deaf yet he still made music.

[Plinko]

*awaits amadeus to post*
mozart was better because he was an absolute nutjob

Nutjob, really?

[misslinimasacre]

I voted beethoven purely for 5th symphony.

I prefer Bach to them both though.

I definitely agree with you.

[The_Murphulator]

i wish there was a Meethoven option because i like them the same :P

[akash06375]

i think that beethoven's 9th and 5th or obviously master pieces but mozart i think was the greatest musician to ever live and well ever live.

he was like the Michelangelo of music.

le nozze di figaro, don giovanni, and magic flute are more then music.

and to say that mozart didnt have passion in his music....i literally have no response to that.

just listen to don giovanni or his reqium.

BUUUUT

Berlioz and Tchaikovsky tie for writing my 2 favorite pieces ever(1812 overture and mass des morts) with Shostakovich being a close third