I Play Oboe

@helenSOh yes! <3 I love that. Also the Mozart oboe concerto (later reworked into a flute concerto in D) :D The exposition of the 1st movement quartet also reminds me heavily of the 1st mvt exposition in the Haydn oboe concerto (though there is rather a lot of suspicion that Haydn wasn't actually the composer in that case)

"the Mozart oboe concerto (later reworked into a flute concerto in D)
— Ohh! I didn't know - thaaank you! Wow 🌷

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The opening is just SO Mozart at his chirpiest :D

@Lhayezee ... with score, in sync with the music! Very nice 🌷

I always feel that Moyart's harmonies are a bit simple, compared to romantic music. Tonic - Subdominant - Dominant - Tonic

@helenS :D

I think some of his music can be by more contemporary standards quite over-simplistic, and he doesn't have the harmonic inventiveness, always, that much earlier composers like J.S. Bach could manage even on his worst day!

The iconoclastic bit of my brain whispers that he is partly so famous and well-regarded because of his early death. (The same can be said to a far greater extent, about Chopin, who wrote some nice (and often quite difficult!) music, but is quite overrated IMHO, and had the fortune to have something of a 'tragic waif' figure - and was also Polish, which counted for double for 19th century romantics!)

But then you hear some of what WAM composed and it just [i]fizzes[/i] with such irrepressible joy and brilliance. I don't know if he's my favourite composer but he's guaranteed to bring a smile to my face :)

@Lhayezee My main complaint (regarding WAM's harmonies) is not a lack of [u]complexity[/u], but a lack of [u]color[/u]. He uses major triads almost exclusively, and triads are bland.

I think there's something in that perhaps but by my estimation it's common to composers of his era in general. On the third hand, I don't think his later workd lack colour (leaving aside that which was written by Süssmayr)

@Lhayezee Oh I really did not want to criticize Mozart - I mean who am I to judge? "Idomeneo" is my 2nd-favorite opera (2nd only to Gluck's "Alceste").

@helenS Oh I didn't mean to imply I thought you were or anything like that! lol