With the 103rd overall pick, BF & The BFFs are proud to select, in the category of
instrumental soloist, with the option of switching him into the songwriter category at a later time, arguably the greatest and most influential composer/musician of all time, the inhumanly prolific composer, the groundbreaking player, the defining artist of the Classical style, the boy-genius himself,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was not only one of the greatest composers of the Classical period, but one of the greatest of all time. Surprisingly, he is not identified with radical formal or harmonic innovations, or with the profound kind symbolism heard in some of Bach's works. Mozart's best music has a natural flow and irresistible charm, and can express humor, joy or sorrow with both conviction and mastery. His operas, especially his later efforts, are brilliant examples of high art, as are many of his piano concertos and later symphonies. Even his lesser compositions and juvenile works feature much attractive and often masterful music.
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...More important is the influence Mozart influenced on later composers through the example of his works. Follow the surge in his reputation after his death, the study of works by Mozart became part of the training of every classical musician, and has been ever since.
Ludwig van Beethoven, whose life overlapped with Mozart's, seems to have been particularly strongly influenced by him. Beethoven became closely acquainted with Mozart's work as a teenager (he is thought to have played Mozart's operas in the court orchestra in Bonn).[65] He traveled to Vienna in 1787 in the hope (unfulfilled) of studying with Mozart. It is thought that some of Beethoven's works have direct models in comparable works by Mozart. Beethoven also wrote cadenzas (WoO 58) to Mozart's D minor piano concerto K. 466.
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