I find the music of Mozart to be very boring!

[Reverend_Smitty]

So sue me...but I have a listening test in my music appreciation class tomorrow (on the classical era) mind you I love Classical music but for some reason Mozart leaves me cold. I love Bach and I really enjoy the music of the Romantic era but I just can't dig Mozart and I don't know why. It's brilliant music in the technical sense but I have no emotional attachment to it. Anyone else feel the same way?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. My father did.....

He didn't care for any music that was written before the 19th century, with the single exception of Beethoven.

That said, I'll bet there is something Mozart wrote that you'd enjoy...
Maybe one of his operas or a string quartet or his glass harmonica concerto. :hi:

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. Unfortunately nothing on this test tomorrow

I'm trying to listen but...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Speck Tater]

3. You will burn in hell for saying things like that!

What sacrilege! Mozart leaves Bach so far in the dust!

[Beaverhausen]

5. and you will join him!!!

that's comparing apples and oranges.

Mozart boring???
:rofl:

[4_Legs_Good]

4. Even Don Giovanni?

That's rediculous! The climax scene in DG is the best piece of music ever written.

david

[warrens]

6. Being kept as a plaything of the rich

Ain't really the way to go. In another era, he would have been even more brilliant than he was. I used to be a record buyer, specializing in punk, and there were two classical/jazz buyers too. One was the typical effete snob who had never even heard a punk song, and the other was a guy studying for his master's in conducting, who loved both kinds of music.

His firm opinion that Mozart would have been Johnny Rotten in the present.

[FuzzySlippers]

7. I feel that way about much of Mozart's music,

but there are things that are wonderfully moving such as the Requiem and the Great Mass in C Minor.

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. I forgot about the requiem...

I do enjoy that very much

[tjdee]

8. I feel that way--I recognize his extraordinary talent, but eh. Beethoven

is far better at getting emotion out of me. I do like some of Mozart's pieces (love Don Giovanni), but overall it's like....Vivaldi or something. Much of what I've heard is too darn chipper for my taste.

I saw in one of those Christian bookstores once a saying that "Bach gave us God's words, Mozart gave us God's laughter, and Beethoven gave us God's fire." And when I think of the three, regardless of any God's involvement, that sounds fairly accurate. Words, laughter, fire.

[ladjf]

10. check out the overture to the Magic Flute. You might like it.

It sounds somewhat like the polyphonic style of J.S.Bach. Some say that it was the first thing he wrote after encountering the "Well Tempered Clavier". He was friends with CPE Bach.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. I like his operas and some of his choral music, but most of his

instrumental music is pretty forgettable, as far as I'm concerned.

As an acquaintance I ran into at a Chamber Music Northwest concert in Portland a couple of years ago said, "The music of Mozart and his contemporaries is too deedly."

We both agreed that on a program that featured music by Mozart, Boccherini, and Schnittke (despite his German name, a 20th-century Russian composer), the only piece we really liked was the Schnittke.

[FuzzySlippers]

12. There's a long divertimento

on MPR right now, and it's deadly dull.:boring:

[tammywammy]

13. I played the cello for 8 years

I loved playing Beethoven and Liszt the best, then Mozart, then Bach. Beethoven and Liszt both stir something up in you when you're playing them. Mozart does as well, but not on the same level. I think Bach is beautiful (as well as Vivaldi) but BORING to play.

They all have wonderful qualities, but to each his own.

[elperromagico]

14. It's a pain in the arse to read his scores while listening along.

Section A.
Repeat Section A.
Section B.
Repeat Section B.
Repeat Sections A & B.

It's not quite that bad, but you get the idea.

But I do like his music. Not as much as I like Tchaikovsky or Beethoven, though. It's just a little too... perfect.

[Lorien]

15. I adore Mozart-always have

his music has even been proven to speed up the growth of connective tissue in children's brains, it's so complex and layered, yet so brilliantly composed. Try watching the film "Amadeus"; there's a scene towards the end that shows a glimpse into his creative process that, though fictional, may deepen your appreciation for his work.

[Whoa_Nelly]

16. Mozart is one of my favorites to play on piano

It's challenging, and of all the great composers, Mozart's is the only one I can never memorize completely...have to have the sheet music in front of me. Am currently working on Sonata in F k332...fun and lively piece.

[bridgit]

17. mozart suffered from his own complex...

he felt, in advance, that virtually every note he put to paper, every modulation, was perfectly preformed; if while speaking of modulation, he could resolve a phrase within three measures where it would have taken others well advanced to mozart's years & presumed level of experience up-wards of 20 & 30 to do likewise = he understood his media very well; while by virtue of that very same complex he contributed & then secured his own placement in the historical development of music.

scales for the sake of scales do not by definition music make so as to say. from within his musical lexicon there are pieces still recognized as avant garde even by today's standards. yet it is true...

you may not by all these extension per se have access to an emotional attachment with so theoretical a source of expression. it may not for that matter even be necessary as is not from time to time seen-the-case with bach who understood with same-wise quickness the power of tonal balance & counterpoint vis-a-vis human emotions wherein music; as with shakespeare w/words, you may well opt to re-visit your access to emotional response imo

[Squeech]

18. Me too

With the exception of Beethoven, I don't want to hear anything between the death of Bach and the birth of Debussy.

I know about that "Mozart makes you smarter" study. It's hogwash, in the sense that the other types of music available were top 40 radio and easy listening. We need a study comparing Mozart to Stravinsky.