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Amputate: I'm not sure if the Mozart thing was a response to my statement, but just in case, I want to clarify what I meant...
He probably was top 40 of his time, you're right. But music was different then. There had been no market studies at that time. There were no boards of executives deciding what music lives and what dies, with huge investments to protect.
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there absolutely WAS..... remember, he was composing for royalty, which I'm sure was a helluva lot harder on composers/musicians than today's corporate suits are.
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There were no discernable trends and copycat fads (that I know of) watering down and even ruining music that COULD be good.
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again, yes there was. People tried to rip off Mozart just like anyone else.
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So my point was that commercialism has killed good art, and that's what I dislike. In Mozart's time, he was seen for the genius he was.
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no.... he wasn't.... he died and was buried in a pauper's mass grave. No one viewed him as a genius in his time. A curiosity maybe, but certainly not the way we see him now.
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But if he were coming of age today, he would either be making cheesy dance beats or on the streets playing for spare change.... and I think that's sad.
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I seriously doubt that.