Beethoven vs Mozart: does music please or defy?

BEETHOVEN vs MOZART go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

BEETHOVEN

You charmed emperors with perfect elegance, Wolfgang; I seized fate by the throat and made deafness itself sing.

MOZART

Elegance is not weakness, Ludwig—my operas breathe like living people, while your symphonies too often shout at the poor listener.

BEETHOVEN

I shout because I have something to say: I freed music from courtly manners and handed it to all humanity in that final Ode to Joy.

MOZART

And I proved, at five years old, that joy needs no revolution—only that you never write a single wasted note.

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