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In Reply to: Uh. . . comparing Mozart's manuscripts with Beethoven's. . . posted by Chris from Lafayette on January 21, 2015 at 21:31:53:
Yeah, but I've read that Mozart destroyed his sketches to bolster his image.
None of this is to discount his astounding musical gifts, to which there is much attestation. But the belief that many have, owing in part to a letter from Mozart that's now known to be a fabrication in which he supposedly claimed that his works came to him in a flash of inspiration, that he saw everything in his head and just wrote it down is an exaggeration.
I think the facile works are basically either works written when he was young, which unfortunately is most of what we have from Mozart -- there was enormous emotional and musical growth after he turned 30 -- or pleasant works that he churned out in vast quantities to pay the rent an that have nuggets of genius that he didn't have time to work out. Really, if you look at the youthful works of most great composers, you'll see a similar pattern -- flashes of genius along with musical immaturity and a style that's still heavily dependent on that of established composers. When you get to the great period you're hearing another Mozart altogether, and this Mozart is anything but facile, even in lighthearted works like The Magic Flute or Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
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