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Originally Posted by Lisa.Kinzer
Mozart's great.
Nobody's going to try to argue with you about his genius, his compositions, or his body of work as a whole.
And obviously, technical fluff does not apply to all his work, as you delineated.
I don't know if you ever played any instruments, but FarrahWaters and I were (I think) speaking from experience as students...
For me, I would get to these passages and there are so many notes, arpeggios, embellishments, that it felt like it was detracting from the piece, the melody, the phrasing.
Sometimes I wonder if, similar to what you said, he was bored and sort of playing jokes on the rest of us...just to keep himself interested.
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Oh sure, now you throw my lack of real keyboard skills in my face. Just joking.
I play a little keyboards but I could never manage anyhting by Mozart. My son, however, is a reasonably talented pianist and has studied numerous pieces by Mozart and CHopin and Rachmaninoff, etc. I rarely tired of hearing Mozart while he was working on them, but sometimes Rachmaninoff got a little tedious, to be honest.
I don't think he was playing jokes on us, I think he was keeping himself happy; we were incidental. I have noticed that most kids, especially boys, that study the paino somewhat seriously love to play the fast stuff. The faster the better. It is a form of youthful exuberance. I think Mozart may have been like that. His music fairly screams youthful exuberance. I will certainly not tell you your opinion is incorrect, but only that I don't share it with respect to the large majority of Mozart's music.