In Mozart’s time musicians were considered craftsmen and expected to work with set musical phrases. That’s how it was done—the same was true of all his contemporaries and immediate predecessors. This is the actual definition of the classical era in music! This fact is well known. Mozart isn’t respected for originality, he is known for taking those phrases and mixing and matching them in such a way that surpassed everyone before him, and many after. Mozart was compiling better music at 20 than Haydn was at 40. Again well known fact. Mixing and matching modular phrases is still done, in all styles of music, even today, country, rock, jazz, blues, and everything else just about. Listen to symphony 21 in C. The beginning is a dumpy little tune, one of those simple melodies that as a kid Mozart was expected to improvise on. Now listen to the entire symphony keeping that it is variations on the dumpy tune. It’s extraordinary—that’s the genius of Mozart.

OMG YES
what is it caaalllled?!??!!?

There used to be a game you could buy in any well-stocked sheet music store, I forget the name of it but it was about Mozart. The way it worked was you rolled a pair of dice, and a particular musical phrase was associated with different dice combinations. You won the game by writing a longer Mozart composition, or something like that. The point was that just by rolling dice you were putting together actual Mozart compositions, like a theme from this symphony or that horn concerto.
Could you do that with any other composer? Certainly not with just two dice. Mozart was all formula, hardly any inspiration. People like his nice melodies and feel like it's uplifting and all, which is great, but the reality is that hideglue down there is right: he was very prolific, but if you want originality in that time period look to Haydn. Just my opinion, obviously.

Only on RP - diversity - excellent!

Gawd! I can't stand classical music. It may be time to leave RP, as there has been wa-a-a-y-y too much of it being played as of late.

Only a highly gifted DJ is able to fit Mozart into a program like this.

Bill, you are the Mozart of Internet Radio!

Mozart was all formula, hardly any inspiration. People like his nice melodies and feel like it's uplifting and all, which is great, but the reality is that hideglue down there is right: he was very prolific, but if you want originality in that time period look to Haydn. Just my opinion, obviously.

There used to be a game you could buy in any well-stocked sheet music store, I forget the name of it but it was about Mozart. The way it worked was you rolled a pair of dice, and a particular musical phrase was associated with different dice combinations. You won the game by writing a longer Mozart composition, or something like that. The point was that just by rolling dice you were putting together actual Mozart compositions, like a theme from this symphony or that horn concerto.
Could you do that with any other composer? Certainly not with just two dice. Mozart was all formula, hardly any inspiration.

Gawd! I can't stand classical music. It may be time to leave RP, as there has been wa-a-a-y-y too much of it being played as of late.

The one with the robots, and an evil doctor? I played that one, and I was thinking the same thing! DOS on my 286DX16 with 4 megs RAM.

Ozark Trail all the way.

He's not, and he has a point. Much of Mozart's work was considered the "Sugar Sugar" of its day.

I miss PC games from the 90's.

I miss PC games from the 90's.

sadly, everytime I hear this I'm reminded of some math solving computer game from the 90s

sadly, everytime I hear this I'm reminded of some math solving computer game from the 90s

buh? permission to disagree

Lame. Why this easily digested stuff when there's so much good classical music?

I just knocked over the water cooler!

buh? permission to disagree

I hope you are joking.

Let's admit what no one wants to... Mozart was a
bubble-gum composer. His most popular symphonies were
hit parades of catchy tunes. Think Haydn or
Beethoven instead!

Yummmy Amadeus. We needed a nice classical break! And a Solti version as well; So smooooooth!

Perfect timing. Just when I needed something to slow my heart rate down and relax a little. Ahhhhh......