In your opinion -- Beethoven or Mozart?

Question

I myself love them both. They're both very different, in good ways, from each other, i wanna see what someone else thinks, Beethoven or Mozart?

Not music wise. In general from what you know

Hmm. I don't believe Mozart was the child for everything bad, he was a child and had no idea what he was in for, he was very strange from what i know and loud and funny, but so was beethoven.

I like beethoven more because of his more obvious struggle. He seemed so strong, even though he was a "brute" i think he had something.. about him that made people secretly hate loving him, a jealousy. But then again, Mozart was gifted and had envious people surround him. Mozart was what he could only be, he was young and immature for the most part, but he made damn good music@!

Alsooo, i don't think you understand the question. I never said which one is better, which one is best..? Did i? I said, in your opinion, who's character do you like better, not musical wise, but from what you know.

Their personalities and stories. I never asked who had more talent or wrote better songs.

Answer 1

Historically one would be forced to choose Mozart, simply because of his status as the predecessor to Beethoven.

Were it not for Mozart's music having come before we have no idea how Beethoven's music would have turned out. I have no doubt that he would have still produced masterpieces but without what Mozart had done musically before, then Beethoven would not be able to build and innovate upon it.

Beethoven himself commented several times over the course of his life how much he admired Mozart and his work, even going as far as to write the missing cadenza's (which would have been improvised by Mozart during his performances) into several of Mozart's piano concertos including the piano concerto no. 21 in D-minor K.466 which are still played today.

As for personal preference, then i have to say that i prefer both composers for different reasons.

I love Mozart because of his at times jovial and lyrical pieces, but also for his deep and somber works.

If I'm looking for music that pays more attention to grandiose scale and powerful dramatic force then i will choose Beethoven.

Answer 2

Beethoven and Mozart overrated??!!
I cannot really choose between them. I love their music, but each for different reasons.
Mozart had a facility for melody unlike anybody before or since. It is the single most important reason for his enduring popularity with classical music enthusiasts. Not until Tchaikovsky do you get such fabulous melodies and so many - the guy sure had a way with a tune.
Beethoven is the greatest of all composers and the epitome of a man suffering for his art. It was his suffering that turned a rather ordinary looking curmudgeon into the titan of western music. Mozart music came to him so easily, whereas Beethoven continually wrestled with each composition, hammering out each detail like he was forging creations of steel. It was a labour of love and that is evident in the finished items.
How can you pick between the two - for me, it depends on my frame of mind at the time.

Answer 3

I appreciate both of their works.

They both gave us terrific pieces, which the general public usually knows just the beginning of, oddly enough.

You have Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Everyone knows that beginning.

And you have Mozart's Eine Kleine, which everyone knows the beginning of.

But should I have to choose - I would choose Tchaikovsky. Have you ever heard his Violin Concerto in D? Absolute genius.

Answer 4

Beethoven, definitely. Besides his music being more dramatic and interesting, he led a life filled with tragic emotional heights that Mozart's could not rival.

Answer 5

NEVER Mozart. He was the child prodigy for all the wrong reasons.

ALWAYS Beethoven. For a man to compose his 9th Symphony(Ode to Joy) while deaf shows a true passion for music.

Answer 6

I personally love Beethoven both to play and listen to. Chopin is another favourite.

Answer 7

Mozart. I like the playfulness in a lot of his work.

Answer 8

Dumb, pointless, irrelevant question.

BOTH composers were among the greatest of all time. They wrote a different kind of music from each other, belonged to a different age and culture (despite only being a generation apart in age) and so to ask which is best is ridiculous. What does it matter? Listen and appreciate the music!

Answer 9

"Wolfie" Amadeus Mozart!

Answer 10

Neither, they were both overrated. I'd choose Bach.