Why Is Mozart Genius?
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This video looks at why Mozart is widely considered as a genius - the greatest musical genius to walk this Earth
Musical examples used include:
Mozart - Piano Concerto in C major, no. 21, Andante
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart - Piano Sonata in C major, K545
Mozart - Symphony no. 40
Mozart - Rondo alla Turca
Mozart - Flute and Harp Concerto, Movement 2
Mozart - 'Gran Partita' Wind Serenade in Bb
Mozart - Kyrie from the Great Mass in C minor
Thanks for watching, as always!
Discover more about Mozart in Apple Music Classical, the streaming service for classical music.
apple.co/InsideTheScore
You can search for Mozart Essentials or Mozart Undiscovered playlists. They even have a composer page. Enjoy!
If Mozart was a genius, why is he dead?
Antonio Salieri Amazing 😂😂
Duh
He was a genius musician, not a genius necromancer, meaning he could not go on beyond death.
@@Schnittertm1 Oh thanks for explaining! Very informative.
Make sense...
At the age of 5,6,10 and 11, I was making sand castles.
At the age of 5,6,10, and 11 I ate the sand
@@mariorl8927 At the age of 5,6,10, and 11 I pooped in the sand, well, actually out in the water just away from the beach. I'd pull my swim trunks down while no one was looking and, you know what, maybe this is just a little too real for a UA-cam comment.
Yes, okay, yes. I watched my poo get swept away by the waves towards the other children at the beach, okay? There, I said it. I'm sorry. It's just, I really had to go. I just wanted to stay out in the water, and the bathrooms at the beach wreaked of urinal cakes and they always had unflushed diarrhea in the stalls.
Please, forgive me.
ABitOfTheUniverse What the heck dud?, that was an unnecessary explanation response
@@mariorl8927 Well at least I'm not the one that ate it, or made castles out of it. You guys are grosser. XD
@@abitoftheuniverse2852
😂😂😂 my dude I didn't say I ate it 😂
I have studied music deeply for over 50 years and I am convinced that Mozart was the greatest of all. He was a genius touched by the Divine. Beethoven was inspired by him. Mozart composed aged 5 and on his death bed could compose 9 parts simultaneously without correction. How can you compose 600 masterpieces and die at 35? It's unreal.
I’d honesty put Kanye and Mike up there…they couldn’t play the instruments like he could but they knew what sounds went perfectly together to create new sounds in music…Mike would literally sing the notes and tell them how to compose the music
Arguably his music was "perfect". You could say it needs to be this way or that but you would be wrong. They keep going back to the phrase "without mistakes". They illustrate how perfect his handwriting was on his original compositions without errors or corrections. His music isn't fit to be improved upon or interpreted its beyond anything ever done in the history of music its pristine. I can't listen to it for more than a few minutes or I start having an emotional seizure and begin babbling like a crazy person like Salieri and burst into tears of joy.
Ok...this comment has a lot of red flags but fundamentally all subjective
And Frank Sinatra is right next to Mozart
@@wildbill1834 not quite. frank was a singer not a composer and a consummate musician.
At the age of 5, I was searching for spiders to become spiderman
Relatable
I was eating raw pasta to become superman (some friend in the neighborhood had said that was the way)
Yep but it was my bro who got bit by it and I were soo jealous 😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣
I watched Dora bye- he be composing oml
*what is Mozart doing in his grave?*
*decomposing*
I hate black humor
Should i laugh or not? Idk
Go away
every other comment hated ur comment but i loved it.. decomposing lmao
@@metajaji4249 oh no I loved it aswell
Salieri looked after Constance, Mozart's wife, financially after Mozart died.
Salieri was a good guy.
And, as Tchaikovsky said,
Mozart is Sunshine.
I think he said that he was the christ of music. Not that he was sunshine.
@@malkolmlind8598
Your correct.
It was Dvorzark who said Sunshine.
@Stream of Consciousness
I felt the same when I found out.
Ruining a good man's reputation is cheap and nasty.
Thanks for your reply.
@@peterjongsma2754 question is still the same - what if thats not true
“If anyone should be mentioned in the same breath as Christ, then it is Mozart”
-Tchaikovsky
Mozart's genius lay in his simplicity. Bach's genius lay in his ability to make complex pieces so outstanding. Beethoven was something else, can't describe him. Vivaldi was a one-album wonder, but still continues to capture the imagination of music lovers. All the 4 are special to me.
I recommend you try listen to Vivaldis La stravanganza, and see if dont feel like taking that comment back. A ‘funny’ thing about Mozarts music is that while we today perveive especially a lost childlike simplicity in it, at the time he started gaining fame in france and italy many people would find in him rather a special deep quite german melancholy, the sound of an inner tiredness...like that warm scent of dusty park road on a rainy spring day i think people associate with him.
@@maltrho I have heard La Stravanganza. It is brilliant.
@@rocky49able many masterpieces of mozart are not simple at all, people confuse balance and beauty with simplicity , it's sad 🤦
Beethoven has characteristics of all mentioned... his music is the most accesible and universal. He wrote the music closest to the human being.
And Liszt just wanted to make people furious
Imagine all the pieces we would have had if Mozart lived to be like 70 or something
or not. MANY talented artists fizzle out after 30. Although others like John Williams create gold into their 70's. So, I guess we'll never know with Mozart. But, that's part of the allure
Hey I'm caring on mozarts work in the shadow of beethoven, I write spanish operas on my channel. Hired a soprano for the first I sing the 2nd which is written for spanish guitar so I can play it anytime with out hassles. I put english in the description of Donde esta mi Sangre
@@porflimbornapilis2556 most composers i like got better with time. Mahler, beethoven, schubert (although he hardly lived long) etc.
He may have become less productive if he lived longer. He may also have became less popular as Beethoven became more well known.
The story of how at 14 he memorized Allegri's Miserere after only two live performances in Rome, tells us everything about his cognitive powers.
Yes, I believe he had an idiotic memory.
David Copson I D I O T I C
He had a phonographic memory.
@@davidcopson5800 I think you mean Eidetic. Something like a photographic memory though I think people misunderstand exactly what that means. Basically, Mozart may in fact have been autistic in some way which gave him an advantage with music. Thing about autism is even if it gives certain benefits, it's quite harmful too and I get the sense that Mozart could sometimes be his own worst enemy.
@@michaelheath2866 Charmed by your serious response. I was only joking with the 'idiotic' memory, I always play around with with words like that. I have this a little bit, I can remember whole chess games and positions from chess games and draw things quite precisely from memory. I'm sure Mozart was on the spectrum somewhere. Guess some must suffer for their art.
you all better watch the movie. Every single minute it shows how i am superior than Salieri.
:0
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True dat
🤣, what is a subdominant?
oof
Yo imagine a Bach and Mozart collab though, straight heat🔥🔥
Constance, his wife actually awakened Mozart's love of fugue and the 41st symphony is a great example of the influence of Bach in Mozart...
That piece would shatter into pieces due to too much greatness on it
Bach and Mozart together would result in a Beethoven.
You do know that JS Bach's son JC Bach gave Mozart lessons and Mozart 25th symphony was based on a JC Symphony.
JEAN PIERRE POLNAREFF WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE
I know the quote, I don't remember who said it; Beethoven's music is Beethoven talking to god, Mozart's music is god talking to Mozart.
Or Mozart s music is Like Dawn while Beethoven s music is like Twilight. Beethoven is more interesting while mozart s music is more of a perfection...
@@niccolomachiavelli8763 It's like Sinatra, "When he sings,it's like poetry, and when he talks,it's like Hoboken"
Chopin
Tchaikovsky
Mozart is the perfection of the simple and superficial.
Beethoven is the perfection of the complex and deep.
One thing to remember about Mozart’s crude humor is that it was very prevalent in that period. Almost everyone had that type of humor and I find it quite hilarious. It would make sense that those people who were expected to hold themselves to such a high standard in every aspect of their lives would find such joy and rebelliousness in crude humor. Opera boxes during that time to were the equivalent of the vip section of a club with many drinks and promiscuous women. We just see the paintings and think that those people were extremely classy, which they were to an extent, but they were also humans and enjoy a good fart joke!
Makes me wonder what kind of humor culture were like in different periods
Kinda like the oldest joke we've ever found inscribed on a stone tablet is a fart joke. No really, it's from 1900 BC in Mesopotamia. It goes like this. "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap."
In case anyone wants a source: www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/news-and-events/latest-news/2008/august-2008/the-worlds-ten-oldest-jokes-revealed.php
Edit: tl;dr: The oldest recorded joke we know of is a fart joke.
Kelly Fischer lol
if you like that and history check out this video about Mozart and the turkish march ua-cam.com/video/D2QFfPskxoc/v-deo.html enjoy
And then thy fart said poof! And even God chuckled down the heavens!
peak comedy
Yes Mozart was a good man. Saw him this morning at the market. He helped me carry my groceries. I'm glad people finally appreciate his talent. Great man.
Ok
You could r/wooosh me, coz I don’t get it
@@js1.987 its sarcasm you whoooshed hecker uwu
This made me laugh
He'd just finished a jam with Elvis, I'll bet.
The genius of Mozart is shown in his musical pranks. He wrote a song called “Come Scoglio” for a singer he really did not like. The song took advantage of her tendency to tilt her head back on high notes and lower her chin on low ones by having constant leaps between high and low notes and thus causing her head to bob like a chicken on stage.
Pretty sure he also wrote a piece for piano that had a very wide left and right hand position, to be played at the same time, with a single note right in the middle of the keyboard between the hands. Obviously, without three hands, that middle note needed to be played with either the nose or... something else.
@@riffsthatkill2180 It was a joke he played on Haydn. He bet Haydn that he couldn't play it. Haydn looked at and told Mozart to play it, Mozart did and played the note with his nose.
"Phrases that had always existed and were just waiting to be written down." That's it. That's what a true connection with a piece of music feels like. It's that simple.
When you have a name WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART you already knew youre a badass
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart . How's that for bad ass
Now that you mention it, it is a pretty badass sounding name.
back then everyone were badass comparing to nowadays
He didn't. He was christened 'Gottlieb', but tranlated that into latin: "Amadeus" (Lover of God) and took that as his name.
Kelly Fischer right, according to his father: ‘Mozart's father Leopold announced the birth of his son in a letter to the publisher Johann Jakob Lotter with the words "... the boy is called Joannes Chrisostomus, Wolfgang, Gottlieb" ("der Bub heißt Joannes Chrisostomus, Wolfgang, Gottlieb" in German). ‘
don´t forget mozart died at the age of 35
bach 65
beethoven 56
haydn 77
mozarts got better and better (e.g. ave verum corpus and the magic flute were among his last pieces)
now imagine he had lived for 30 more years
yeah i cant imagine what more sublime music he would have done!!
Mozart is kinda like the Ramanujan of music
Why isn't Chopin ever included? Sure he only composed piano compositions but like, still...
miriam darras I love Chopin, but he's not comparable with Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, in my opinion. Although his music is more enjoyable than Hayden's to me.
not one died in their 40's?????????????
What is really amazing is that Mozart never had to make a correction on his music. He knew EXACTLY what to put on paper before he wrote it down ! THAT IS GENIUS !
Outstanding call my friend. You nailed it...that is genius. You knew enough to make the correct call on that so i am assuming that you are pretty well on the ball yourself. Nice.
Too much Hollywood in your comment.
I am 95% sure that isn't true
@@miguelpereira9859 sorry, but it's true. Google his name and check some of his work. some of The original works still exist. Who do we have today that can even come close to his perfection?
@@jameshollen9723 But Mozart did make corrections
Been listening to classical music for more decades than I care to admit. I didn't always think Mozart was the greatest composer, but in the last few years I am starting to realize that he was the indispensible genius. I could imagine a world where all the works of any one composer would not exist, but not Mozart. We need his music, it enriches humanity like no other.
Wolfgang was just Mozarts rapper name
xd alikh idzam his trap name
Wow not funny are y’all ok
I am disgusted
🤣
This is brilliant 🤣
I cried as a 14 yr old watching Amadeus. My sympathies were with Salieri; it had become clear to me then that I was mediocre too.
I was about that age too when I saw it......and started to frantically listen to radio 3 to absorb more of his genius music. I still live it to this day!
Salieri was NOT a great composer. But he was a competent composer. And that’s ok. Very, very few can be great in any field.
@Nouytre Nji That’s right.
literally what everybody thinks when they watch the movie hahaha
Nouytre Nji No.
"Oh, my ass burns like fire!"
-W.A. Mozart
So he liked fart-jokes.
Who doesn't?
@@sophiadao7325Flatulence humour is stupid and immature
I've heard that jokes of the dirty kind was popular among the aristocracy during that time
@@g0thicut1e68 don’t care
@@g0thicut1e68 tell that to one of the greatest composers in history
Amadeus (Gottlieb in German, which was Mozart's actual middle name) translates literally as "love God" but actually means, 'beloved by God'.
Beloved of God.. Same for the name David.
If ur gonna be that guy it was technically Theophilus. Plus Mozart actually never really signed his name using Gottlieb, he preferred the French Amade.
"Wolfgang" gets an entirely new meaning when pronounced English
The literal meaning in German is even better : wolf's gait
Stephen Roche i know, I’m german
Golfwang
@@oodon3220 I love that 😂
@@stephenroche5194 heeey, what does gait mean? That is not my language :3
I always considered Mozart’s music to be almost mathematical, just as the most elegant equations are waiting to be discovered and written, so was his music. Some pieces, I swear he is talking to my soul, eg K466.....an absolute masterpiece.
Mozart ♥♥♥ ... my favorite composer, and the greatest ever. I had the honor to touch his harpsichord when I visited his house in Salzburg.
Wow! That's amazing 😰
oh my GOD mozart serenade no 10 is such a beautiful piece when i first heard this i was like wow i adore classical music and opera as a black man since i was 17 years old
what does this have to do with u being black my guy
@@user-nn8no8pw1o nothing just expressing myself as a classical music and opera lover that is all
Why is Mozart a genius?
(Listens to any random Mozart tune)
“Ok. Got it” 👍🏼
He is the greatest composer that ever lived for me. Just imagine if he lived as long as Bach or Beethoven.
To me too I absolutely love Mozart he is the greatest of all
But Mozart's life was already composed by God.
@@mojooftheg5961 it was lousy.
@@leofelix4063 What a travesty that Mozart died at such a young age when the scum of society live longer. Musicians were treated as nothing more than servants in royal society at that time.
@@mojooftheg5961 so true.
The more I learn from Mozart the more I love him
Mozart was always part of my life,
His music is beautiful,
Its so sad that he died so young,
Just imagine what other masterpieces he would’ve created if he didn’t died,
It’s in the name, mozART
Actually with the German emphasis, it is MO-zart.
@@marysylvie2012 Besides, art doesn't mean art in german
I would have bet my kidney if someone had asked me his name and I would have answered Wolfgang Amadeus then I discovered that he had 4 birth names
I call him Mostart regularly.
@@marysylvie2012 it's a joke
Structure and motif development- Beethoven
Counterpoint master- Bach
Genius melodies and pure divine music- Mozart
Isn't it more like, Mozart = the best all rounder.
Listen to String Quartet K421 or Fantasie K608.
Examples of Mozart's counterpoint (number inside brackets indicate the age he wrote them)
Galimathias Musicum in D major K. 32: Fugue (10): ua-cam.com/video/TPcMkmrJams/v-deo.html
Missa solemnis in C minor "Waisenhausmesse" KV 139 Gloria (12): ua-cam.com/video/XidEZEG3W3s/v-deo.html
Missa solemnis in C minor "Waisenhausmesse" KV 139 Credo (12): ua-cam.com/video/XidEZEG3W3s/v-deo.html
Mass in C major "Dominicus Messe" K66 Gloria (13): ua-cam.com/video/rlQJ2bgK3RQ/v-deo.html
Mass in C major "Dominicus Messe" K66 Credo (13): ua-cam.com/video/rlQJ2bgK3RQ/v-deo.html
Te Deum in C major K. 141 [double fugue] (13): ua-cam.com/video/3HLGJ7m-66U/v-deo.html
Miserere in A minor, [4-part contrapuntal study] K.85 (14) ua-cam.com/video/_PxqQOUn1v0/v-deo.html
Kyrie in D minor [4-part contrapuntal study] K.90 (16): ua-cam.com/video/ZOFFJJ1fAmU/v-deo.html
KV125 - Pignus Futuræ Gloriæ (16): ua-cam.com/video/dQ77xyyffjA/v-deo.html
Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis in C major KV 167 Gloria (17): ua-cam.com/video/X9T_URjVl5I/v-deo.html
Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis in C major KV 167 Credo (17): ua-cam.com/video/YvCnr15hh78/v-deo.html
Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis in C major KV 167 Agnus Dei* (17): ua-cam.com/video/g2teM5WckzA/v-deo.html
String Quartet No. 8 in F major K. 168 (17): ua-cam.com/video/3JDrlCG-y_E/v-deo.html (the slow movement is a canon in F minor)
String Quartet No.11 in E flat major K. 171 (17): ua-cam.com/video/3_jlQ8tD4Uc/v-deo.html (written in the style of double fugue)
String Quartet No. 13 in D minor K. 173 (17): ua-cam.com/video/q5MVDsqIqCY/v-deo.html
Fugue In G Minor KV 401 (17): ua-cam.com/video/tXpV-gpgkQw/v-deo.html
Missa Brevis in F major K. 192 (18): ua-cam.com/video/QprTvKApc8c/v-deo.html
Missa Brevis in D major K. 194 (18): ua-cam.com/video/_7liw0vQFPI/v-deo.html
Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento K243 [double fugue] : VIII Pignus (19): ua-cam.com/video/U-PDJozhBLI/v-deo.html
Misericordias Domini in D minor K.222* (19): ua-cam.com/video/o4PQRbBn3OI/v-deo.html
Missa Longa in C K262 Kyrie [double fugue] (19): ua-cam.com/video/yCDFfN7g_Bk/v-deo.html
Missa Longa in C K262 Gloria [triple fugue] (19): ua-cam.com/video/yCDFfN7g_Bk/v-deo.html
Missa Longa in C K262 Credo (19): ua-cam.com/video/yCDFfN7g_Bk/v-deo.html
Missa Longa in C K262 Sanctus (19): ua-cam.com/video/yCDFfN7g_Bk/v-deo.html
Vesperae solennes de confessore in C, K.339 - 4. Laudate pueri Dominum (24): ua-cam.com/video/c3rDwFFQ6bQ/v-deo.html
Missa solemnis in C, K.337 - 5. Benedictus (26): ua-cam.com/video/ghAa3BJ4b5I/v-deo.html
Praeludium and Fugue KV 394 (26): ua-cam.com/video/m9vVu8rNON4/v-deo.html
Suite in C K.399 - I. Overture K399 (26): ua-cam.com/video/UHgs7-u7wGQ/v-deo.html
Sonata for Keyboard and Violin No. 29 in A Major, K. 402: II. Fuga (26): ua-cam.com/video/mMe4MCsH2WY/v-deo.html
Trio (Fuga a 3) in G Major, K. 443 (27): ua-cam.com/video/UtLOtTDk848/v-deo.html
Fugue In E Flat Major KV 153 (27): ua-cam.com/video/_2rpWr3etWo/v-deo.html
Fugue In G Minor KV 154 (27): ua-cam.com/video/2t42ZCeLxlk/v-deo.html
Grosse Messe in C minor KV 427 Kyrie: ua-cam.com/video/97Twh_q8lQs/v-deo.html
Grosse Messe in C minor KV 427 Jesu Christe - Cum Sancto Spiritu [double fugue] (27): ua-cam.com/video/97Twh_q8lQs/v-deo.html
Grosse Messe in C minor KV 427 Sanctus - Osanna [double fugue] (27): ua-cam.com/video/97Twh_q8lQs/v-deo.html
Adagio and Fugue for String Orchestra in C Minor, K. 546 (32): ua-cam.com/video/PFXF0Aysh4w/v-deo.html
Fantasia for mechanical organ in F minor K594 (34): ua-cam.com/video/Qka_HMc2ajc/v-deo.html
Fantasia for mechanical organ in F minor K608 (35): ua-cam.com/video/Jkh8Re4JUCw/v-deo.html
Overture to Die Zauberflote K620: ua-cam.com/video/c2TGbfzTx2A/v-deo.html
Der, welcher wandert diese StraBe voll Beschwerden (35): ua-cam.com/video/kB56nw1zx-o/v-deo.html
Requiem in D minor K626 Introitus: ua-cam.com/video/sGg2AwyNZA4/v-deo.html
Requiem in D minor K626 Kyrie
(35) ua-cam.com/video/8ybTabIfLgY/v-deo.html
Requiem in D minor K626 Domine Jesu (35): ua-cam.com/video/i4DyyUvZws4/v-deo.html
+classical counterpoint in string quartets, quintets, symphonies, concertos (K449: ua-cam.com/video/NtXTjLLT7Yo/v-deo.html K459: ua-cam.com/video/61ODdVR2DFo/v-deo.html Canonic Minuet of Serenade for winds in C minor K388 ua-cam.com/video/qk0MV_cJfvQ/v-deo.html )
Magnificent Counterpoint in the Finale of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony: ua-cam.com/video/YTxYykhQZbI/v-deo.html
The Ingenious Fugal Finale of Mozart's G Major Quartet, K. 387: ua-cam.com/video/uoXDHOyfJ-k/v-deo.html
The Incredible Finale of Mozart's K. 590 Quartet in F Major: ua-cam.com/video/nkbdUjjfRTQ/v-deo.html
Invertible Counterpoint in the Finale of Mozart's D Major String Quintet, K. 593: ua-cam.com/video/IQbxsGtyc2g/v-deo.html
Mozart: Canon for four voices, in C major, Anh. 191, K 562c: ua-cam.com/video/YC9bKfzXC18/v-deo.html
Makes me hungry for a plate crab canon.
Mozart was a great man I can confirm. He gave me all the answers to my music theory exam. Good man.
"I tell you before God and as an honest man, your son [Mozart] is the greatest composer known to me personally or by repute. He has taste and, what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition."
Franz Joseph Haydn
I read that quote in a Mozart biography. The author then wrote of Mozart's father: "For once in his life, Leopold must have been truly happy." 😆😆😆
Okay, but like... As a German, I adore the way you pronounce the German titles of Mozart's pieces.
The film was made out of _"Mozart and Salieri"_ play written by Alexander Pushkin.
Yeah, and Peter Shaffer based a novel on it. And then wrote a movie script based on said novel... I think.
@@raphaelaschindler4451 Peter Shaffer's was a stage play first. In the original award-winning run on Broadway, it starred Ian McKellen as Salieri and Tim Curry as Mozart.
Man, I didnt know that. Thanks!
Yes and the director of "Amadeus" went to see that play, expecting another deadly boring story on the life of a composer. He got excited though, realizing Mozart led a fascinating life.
There is on yt Little tragedies, russian tv show where you can see that and it is billion times better than crapy amadeus
When I was a kid, I got hooked on the music of Mozart,. This was before the Amadeus movie. Anyway I decided one afternoon, that I wanted all his albums, like my Doors and Beatles collection. (FYI, that's 6 and 12 studio albums, respectively for these Rock legends.)
I can't tell how shocked I was to learn, that I was going to have to buy over 3000 records to have a complete Mozart collection.
I never did get a complete collection, but I did get quite a lot. I'm old now and still listen regularly.
You are great sir.
Thank you for sharing your story.
Mozart is my first musical idol.
Greetings from Serbia...
@@dusanninic5372 Music knows no borders. Somewhere in the world right now, some opera company is performing The Marriage of Figaro and has been since May 1786. The curtain never seems to comes down on this show. The story is silly...The music is devine.
I'm not a musically-minded person nor do a play a musical instrument but Mozart sometimes makes me cry and without lyrics or any words I understand. Why is that? He's been dead for over 230 years.
Greetings to you too from Calif USA.
Because Mozart's works are flawless , stellar , immeasurable and unfathomable , and comfortable to the ear and the mind
Mozart’s greatness is comparable to Bach or Beethoven. He’s the only one of the big three to write complete masterpieces in every major genre. Symphony, Choral, Sonata, Chamber. Concerto, OPERA? No problem! His later works include elements of Bach, and what will become trademarks of Romanticism.
He stands shoulder to shoulder with Bach and Beethoven, but never below.
They are the big three.
Ah that’s not true.
@@johannsebastianbach8471 lol
Mozart never made any trance or dubstep so you cant csay he wrote in every major genre...
@@Sh0n0 That’s true!
There is also an idea that Mozart almost “peeked” into the future. In some of his sonatas there are parts that almost seemed jazzy (k332 f maj that I know of).
Ah, the curse of hindsight. It's so all-seeing that it's all too easy to see future planning.
Inturnet explorer: exactly. Mozart has pieces of music that are a very refined form of jazz.
"If only I could impress Mozart's inimitable works on the soul of every friend of music, and the souls of high personages in particular, as deeply, with the same musical understanding and with the same deep feeling, as I understand and feel them, the nations would vie with each other to possess such a jewel."
His name saids everything!!! W.A.M!!! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Cheers from Central America, Guatemala Guatemala City.
Being a true artist is hard
Not living physically fulfilled
But you’ll live forever from your art
Avicii is another example 😔
I cry everytime I listen or read the end of my Mozart..... The way he was buried... May he rest in peace... his music was and still such great source of energy to me
My interpretation - he had a freakishly high spec brain, similar to someone like Newton, maybe not quite that much of an extreme outlier, but some part of his brain was simply capable of creative supernovas.
He also had a very privileged upbringing, that was able to nurture and facilitate those raw creative powers in the form of musical composition.
This allowed him to have novel ideas that built on what came before him, so we got a decade or so of constant mini eureka’s!, he aggressively moved music forward. Or at least he happened to be the first brain that had new insights with regards to musical composition, that broke new ground and allowed all other brains to start entertaining new ideas that simply hadn’t occurred to them.
There are many just like him, before and after, that have achieved similar things in other genres of music, and other disciplines. It has to be someone, after all. Usually it’s more incremental and attributed to a “wave”, it often feels like it came directly from the zeitgeist itself. But on occasions like these, it’s more explosive and localised to one mind.
It’s just a perfect storm - the right brain at the time in the right place with the right tools.
He was in fact autistic, just like Newton, which explains his freakishly high spec brain lol
I love that flute & harp concerto:) Mozart touches the soul like no other. The greatness of Beethoven would soon follow. A man inspired so much from Mozart's genius.
Your video has had me in tears... "as though they had always existed, just waiting to be written down"... That's his genious quality! You describe his music just the way I feel it...
When I listen, in my mind I try to imagine what the following notes are. Even when one doesn’t understand music, they still can hear sound in their mind. But every time with Mozart, I miss what he’s trying to accomplish. As if he says “Not quite, but let me show you my way”. And it’s far greater than anything I could conjure
In order to understand how he's a genius, you need to study, or at least listen, to his predecessors, and then hear what he did different and the beauty of it. It's amazing!!
Just wanna say how much I appreciate you including examples from the music!
8:32 to 8:41 I loved that description! I had the same thoughts in my head listening to some of Beethoven's compositions!
The melodies along with the harmony would be so "real" that one would think "there's no way that this was composed one note at a time!!!"
. It's as if the complete composition was sent as a gift from the universe to the composer to write and bring to life.
Composing is like a woman being pregnant. You get the germ of an idea, then it grows and you get excited about it, then you think of it night and day, until one day it's born, and perfect and whole. No magic about it. But without the musical genes this would never happen.
@@annettegenovesi4012 I understand that what you said is 100% true. (replying 2 years later lol) What I meant was that it's all "in there" and he's just extracting it. His brain produced this music; It had to make sense to HIM not really caring about what anyone thinks. Some motives or phrases amaze me so much that it's sometimes hard for me to believe that he was just experimenting with the keys until he heard something he liked. It sounds to me like it came to him as a whole, and then yeah, he built on it. But even when building on it, it gets better and presents the unexpected. Beethoven did that too, and so all the other great composers like Rachmaninoff, Chopin and others. But he was extremely musically fluent compared to his predecessors, it was a huge jump in composition.
Mozart's mass in C minor is just incredible😍
Try to listen to his church sonata!
Also try his other choral works: ua-cam.com/video/udAGMaBa7Eg/v-deo.html
Well, a lot of his works are incredibile. I dont know your tastes, but try also some piano concertos.
The Et Incarnatus Est is without peer.
@@stravinskyfan Which ones are your favourites?
5.56 begins the most beautiful piece of music ever written. He has written beauty as an artist would paint it.
2:23 your @** does what sir ?!?!?😭🤣😭🤣
I came here to be educated about music sir not your buttox 🤣
6:00 - Mozart - Flute & Harp concerto, K 299 - 2nd movement
One of my favorite works from him. Actually all the 3 movements from this piece is superb!
Have you ever heard about Joseph Bologne Chevalier De Saint Georges? He was a classical french composer who not only excelled at composition, but also at fencing and many other things.
He was a prolific composer, but 3/4 of his works were lost in the French Revolution and destroyed by Napoleon Bonaparte at the very beginning of the XIX siecle.
There's even one documentary about his life here on UA-cam, but it would be great if you could help to spread his achievements so that more people become aware of his existence and his musical output.
Please make a video about him.
Wow! The French really do exist. This guy is epic!
Destroyed by Napoleon? Bro he died June 1799, months before even Napoleon Bonaparte rose to power (September 1799). I mean seriously though, I think you should fix some of your informations in your comment.
Not to mention that there is no mention in any article that Napoleon attempted to destroyed any of his works. As a matter of fact, Napoleon is a patron or huge fan of arts, as was evident during his Italian campaign wherein he brought back some artwork from Italy and during Egyptian campaign (archeology).
He is a genius. The Abduction of Seraglio is proof of that. All those violins playing on that was so sweet it send chills down my spine. Only a genius can come up with that kind of sound.
8:32 thank you. i feel this statement heavily when creating music. it's a strangely spiritual thing i feel like.
We may not have been alive during the time that Mozart lived but we're alive during the time that Alma lives and that alone is a gift.
Thank you for this beautiful video! ♡☆
If Mozart lived up to his fifties, the world of Music (and our brains) would be much different than today
His music is shit
@@seskokeksic6041 Your mom is shit
Tell me one musician that you consider better than mozart and make me laugh, please.
@@Alessandro90933 There are plenty of composers that I'd rather listen to instead of Mozart. Classical just isn't my thing, not saying that he wasn't a genius. Chopin, Debussy or Satie I enjoy far more.
@@ElNightmareYTActually i love any kind of music and many, many musicians. I just don't like those people that, without knowing anything about classical music and probably without ever having listened classical pieces with due attention, leave unrespectful comments like "this music is shit". This is just unacceptable, especially for musicians like Mozart, whose greatness has been praised by people like: Tchaikovsky, Goethe, Rossini, Debussy, Miller, Wagner, Beethoven, Stendhal, Flaubert, Busoni, Brahms, Einstein, Grieg... and the list could go on and on...
Incredibly well done video with all the musical bits for better understanding a genius lost to us too soon. Yesterday, I finished reading some of the letters exchanged between him and his father. It was heart touching.
My favorite Mozart piece is Laudate Dominum, when he rips those wicked riffs on his Fender Stratocaster.
RIP Wolfgang, you were definitely a genius.
Will you do a video in this format for Bach and Beethoven as well? I would really love that. Thanks for your efforts :)
you ll love this channel then, its not about music theory but about musicians lifes told in a very funny way ua-cam.com/video/WvouSDxHzxs/v-deo.html
Yes Chopin too
The part from serenade for winds sent shivers down my spine. Truly amazing music.
I think it is highly debatable that Mozart was a lesser genius than Bach or Beethoven! I am in awe of the genius of all three, but Mozart produced masterpieces in every single musical genre of his era. Where are the great operas of Bach? Remember that this was the primary test of skill in an 18th century composer...Beethoven's Fidelio contains some sublime music...but as an opera? You see with Mozart we get two geniuses in one...an absolute master of pure music, and a dramatic genius of the stage whose theatrical grasp of the force of music is unsurpassed...and at its most mature rivals Shakespeare in profundity.
...and Handel composed 40 plus operas.
The narration in this video has so much passion for the subject that it made me cry.
I am a pianist very familiar with classical music, and I have no objection to calling Mozart the greatest composer who ever lived
@Bigtombowski 🇮🇱 Yes.
@Bigtombowski 🇮🇱 The video claims a practicing musician would never call Mozart the greatest. Not true.
Bach and Beethoven composed better music for the keyboard. Opera was his speciality
@enigma Liszt and Chopin were the best pianists
@@jesusmanriquezsantana1590 They were among the most skillful pianists but Bach wrote better music for the keyboard. Music is more than virtuosity.
As a classical musician, I dont believe ranks such as best composer or most genius conposer. I think that all the composers had something that other composers did not have which made them unique, or as you said unmatched at their times. All the composers wrote music that are enjoyed by all, which made them all special
Anderson. Wonderful thought! Reminds me of what I heard years ago = there is a much greater difference between great musicians than there is between mediocre ones.
Yeah, the uploader is being silly. Apparently he doesn't like Mozart as much as Bach or Beethoven. I know many people (familiar with classical music) who do like him as much as, and more than, those others.
No , no! We have to hype ONE GUY as an absolute icon. That's the law!
Love videos like this ,thank you so much , it helps us all to get cultured.. we all need it for our soul. What is the meaning of life if not to be fulfilled with incredible experiences.. Mozart was eternally incredible.
Nice work covering the life of Mozart, with such a short life and yet prodigious output, we as a civilization are obliged to keep him alive through exampling and performing his music that fills our senses daily
I will argue that Mozart was the greatest in that he excelled in all forms of music Opera, Symphony, Chamber, Church, and on, while the other, as great as they are, limited by choice or chance to only specific areas.
@Jeb Clar Yeah but Coronation Mass in C is a masterpiece.
"It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It's a sobering thought, for example, that, when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."
Tom Lehrer
Well, he accomplished staying alive way longer... and maybe even not becomming broke?
Thank you so much. you did a great presentational video. this is my first time to hear more about Mozart's genius works. it was really emotional to hear.
Thank you again.
Makes me remember visiting Mozart’s childhood home in Austria
And another great video... Congratulations from Brazil!
Keep up the good work!
Please continue these types of videos with more composers (beethovan, chopin, Tchaikovsky, etc). I loved watching this (and pt 2) and the bach one and would love to know more. Your videos are very nicely descriptive and are paced very well!
Enjoyed this, good examples of his work illustrating your points.
What a fantastic video. The storytelling was simply excellent, and a delightful selection of parts to analyze! I'll watch the second one right away!!
I absolutely love your videos! Thank you!
Me at age 11: eating legos and discovering i had pubic hair for the first time
This dude Mozart at age 11: *WRITES HIS FIRST OPERA*
No offense, but you should kind of worry if you still eating Legos at the age of 11🤣
Which he conducted himself at its premier!
Its lego
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart you clearly have no idea what flavor is
To be fair, Mozart’s operas weren’t the best things he made.
I have yet to listen once to the concerto for flute and harp and not get goose bumps - truly. Every. Single. Time. Like Salieri put it in Amadeus: It's miraculous.
Wonderfully put together! Thank you so much for this pure juice of joy!
Good job, as always! Can't wait to listen to the next Classical Music podcast.
For days, I've been listening to his piano concertos played by Alicia Larrocha and Kempff, and I truly understand it takes a pure heart to bring his music to life.
Your composition of words to describe the emotions in his works are truly a pleasure to hear
Mozart is above all others.
“That prize might go to...”
Me: PAGANINI!
“Beethoven or...”
Me: Vivaldi?
“Bach”
Me: oh... Im good with that
Vivaldi and Paganini are your favorite composers? Eccentric.
I see you're a fan of the violin
Thats violin
I will say Liszt
I would personally pick Paganini or Chopin, they're my favorite composers, Liszt and Vivaldi as well
I love your videos so much!!!
8:32 this is how I, as a pianist, describe the music of Chopin. Like it was already there
Thank you, Inside the Score 🎹 There is so much to wonder about Mozart’s extraordinary life! What a human
Hi! I would be glad i you were able to do a video about the first choral of the johannes passion by j.s. Bach ("Herr unser Herrscher"). It just blows my mind.
The texture is so amazing and multilayered. I love it
The whole piece gives me goosebumps but the final chord of the choral makes my eyes well up.
His piano concertos are invariably good and have some of his loveliest melodies.
his piano concerto #20 is amazing, it's like listening to a hard rock piece.
Amazing video. Excellent info, thanks a lot man.
Absolutely incredible!! So well presented! I was captivated from the beginning! And learned new things! I know theres a lot of exclamation marks but thats because i really mean it! This was superbly presented.
I have no idea why Mozart is not considered by many the greatest of all time, he laid the foundation for Beethoven and mastered every musical form that came before him in a sublime fashion, I certainly consider him the best ever and there is no question in my mind
bach is greater than both mozart and beethoven
Please do more videos of the lives of other composers ! Wonderful video ! Thank you !
very well done!
No
Not well done at all, he says 2 things, the history if mozart, which is useless cuz anyone Can go on wikipédia, and he says that music of mozart is simple but pure expressive and we can memorize melody easily, first of all maybe he says good things but he has no argument so wdc, what he says is that Mozart 's music was pure... ? It means nothing, he says it's expressive... not the most expressive music of all Time, and it's due to classical period which had too many rules that it was blocking expressivity. By the way, saying it's simple music isn't an argument ... For many reasons, first of all, if hé said cause of the simpleness his music was expressive is not an argument a looooot of composers did "simple" music expressive, making simple music doesn't make u a genius and the music of Mozart isn't simple ...
So that vidéo makes u learn informations that
We already know about
Or are false or useless
Sry for my poor vocabulary but i'm french, my screen has bug of typing and there's automatic correction
@@gabrielkaz5250 this is for the "common" folk... Can't dig tooo deep for them... REALLY, at least in the states... this is about as far as he can go... sad... BUT true!
@@Highinsight7 if he can't explain or teach us anything, why do a vidéo ?
Wonderful video, thank you very much!!!