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Mozart: The best Composer of all time

Dale Duquette
Niagara College

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Abstract
There have been many great composers over the years but none match up
with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The way he captured everyone with his
beautiful music was like no other, his whole life was music and it showed
with how popular he became and still is. No one else still has the recognition
that Mozart has, he is still talked about to this day and admired by many.

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There have been many amazing composers throught the centuries. For
example there was Beethoven, Bach, Chopin and the list goes on and on, but
there is one who stands out amongst the rest and his name is Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart. His music was beautiful and loved by so many people that
even to this day he is still relevant in the world, and there is not a single
other composer who had as big of an impact on music then he did. Mozarts
music often seems effortless an aesthetic judgment often ratified by what we
know of the circumstances of its composition. The music seems somehow
pre-made, and it glows with a self-sufficiency (Burnham 2012). It is amazing
how much pleasure people have gotten and still get from his Mozarts
masterpieces.
Mozart was a very smart man, even as a boy. Robert Sherrane says
when he was four he could learn a piece of music in a half hour by age six
he started composing and wrote his first symphonies at age 8(2009-2012).
That alone is an amazing feet and it also is why he became so good at what
he did because he put endless hours of work into it at such a young age. John
McGuire states that Mozarts music takes the upmost skill, grace and purity
of tone to execute (2013). Anyone who speaks about Mozart ussally offers
the highest praises, for example Mozart is the greatest musico-dramatic
genius of all times. This unique position he owes to a temperament which
approached everything, every situation, every human being with absolute

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objectively every situation and every individual appeared to him as music,

his whole conception was purely aesthetic, and music was his language
(Burnham 2012). It is very clear that Mozart is recognized as the best of all
time and for good reason, this is also why he is still talked about in todays
society and used as a household name. I dont know of any other composers
let alone people from back then that are talked about or even remembered
like Mozart is today.
If you are looking for someone who had any type of influence on music
then look no farther than Wolfgang. Before him there were very good
composers but he took it to a whole new level and people after him have
been appreciating it for hundreds of years now. Beethovens appreciation
for him was pretty clear, for example Beethovens piano concerto No.4 in G
major demonstrates a debt to Mozarts piano concerto in C major (Eugen
Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Guy Wagner, Robert Seemann, Herbert
Summesberger, Wiener Steinwanderwege, Geologieder GroBstadt, Christian
Brandstatter 1999). For Mozart to influence someone like Beethoven who can
be compared to Mozart himself is amazing and a true testament to how good
Mozart really is. But music is not the only thing that Mozart has influenced.
According to Brian Wise when students listen to Mozarts music it would
boost their math scores and maybe even get them into Harvard (2013).
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will and should always be considered the
greatest composer of all time simply for the beauty, popularity, and influence

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he had on music and on the world. Not to mention he composed over 600
pieces of music in a life only lasting 35 years. There is no other composer
who has had such an impact on music and the world itself who also has been
remembered and talked about for so many years and so many more years to
come. There will never be another Mozart that is certain.

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