Mozart is easy to listen to because of the effortlessness of it. The harmonic structure is simple yet elegant and the melodies are songful and catchy. Writing music came easy to the guy and you can tell - none of it ever seems convuluted, forced, or as if Mozart ran out of ideas and had to scrape some material together.
Listen to Mozart's very first piece he ever wrote - when he was 5 years old. He obviously had no formal training at this point, in fact he probably didn't even know how to notate properly just like any 5-year old can't read or write. But the ease to which the music came to him is obvious. He had a God-given talent right from the beginning.
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