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I prefer Beethoven because Moonlight Sonata and Tempest are amazing sonatas and plus he looks more manly than Mozart
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Beethoven has probably has the better best single pieces but as a whole Mozart is better.
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Beethoven
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Mozart, Id say is more of a composer that creates simple, yet so comforting and relaxing music. It is all perfect, every note immaculately placed where you expected it would be placed.

Beethoven, on the other hand, creates pieces that suddenly have a shock and a twist, and minor cords, then major cords, and its all over the place. The point being is that his music gives you the goosebumps. Just like his life gives you the goosebumps. Beethovens father used to physically abuse him and forcefully teach him the piano and violin. And if he made a little mistake, a single note, he would punch and abuse him. His life is really complex and full of little details that he always will remember, thats why his music includes complexity and is not as simple as Mozarts. In fact, he said it himself, O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Beethoven on (almost literally) his piano sonatas alone. He has just about the deepest catalogue out there of amazing gems. And none of that takes away from Mozarts compositional mastery.
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Bach
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Big_Nabendu posted...

Bach

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SlashmanSG posted...

Big_Nabendu posted...

Bach

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Mozart

Single pieces of Beethoven's stick out (and by that I don't even mean necessarily the entirety of it, it's often only parts of movements that people recognize) but there's very few pieces of Mozart's where the motif isn't there throughout the entirety. That form ultimately makes it so that the entire composition feels that much more complete and worth sitting through the whole thing.
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