http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2006/006/9.14.html
I disagree though with the idea that Mozart's music was always gentle, calm and in controlled and relatively quiet balance. In his last works, such as the Requiem and the first movement of Symphony No. 40 and the last movement of No. 41, he was certainly moving into more impassioned territory, a trend that would probably have continued and deepened had he lived longer.
Naturally one of the most intriguing questions is what effect Mozart and Beethoven would have had on each other had Mozart lived longer and they grew and developed at the same time. There might have been a continuing rivalry and mutual influence, something like what happened between Picasso and Matisse. What differences there might have been or NOT been in Beethoven's works is impossible to say, as impossible as trying to guess what Mozart's later work might have been like.
I disagree though with the idea that Mozart's music was always gentle, calm and in controlled and relatively quiet balance. In his last works, such as the Requiem and the first movement of Symphony No. 40 and the last movement of No. 41, he was certainly moving into more impassioned territory, a trend that would probably have continued and deepened had he lived longer.
Naturally one of the most intriguing questions is what effect Mozart and Beethoven would have had on each other had Mozart lived longer and they grew and developed at the same time. There might have been a continuing rivalry and mutual influence, something like what happened between Picasso and Matisse. What differences there might have been or NOT been in Beethoven's works is impossible to say, as impossible as trying to guess what Mozart's later work might have been like.
Comment