Which Classical Composer had the greatest legacy?

[Kool Keith]

Beethoven travelled through time to save the world. Try to beat that

My vote goes to Beeth-oven. I don't have the deep knowledge of classical music that some of you obviously have, but there is an intensity to Beethoven's music that I don't believe anyone else possessed.

Even though Bach was such a genius, there is something with his music that I can't get behind. His music seems hollow to me. He wrote all this crazy counter-point fugue stuff (the technical terms, I know ), but somehow the music doesn't move me.

 

[Mirc]

I think the chief reason everyone loves Mozart is just because everybody likes the story about the romantic prodigy who had beautiful music just flow as if by magic to his mind. Crap like that.

You could take a random 1/4th of Bach's work and it would probably be better than all of Mozart's.

QFT.

Mozart was a good composer, there is no doubt about that. But I think if you compare him and Bach, Mozart is probably going to look up in awe because Bach would be 10000 times his height. Bach is the granddaddy of all Classical music, as far as I can see. All classical composers during his life, and after his life, studied him and were influenced by him.

I agree with you, but just FYI he was forgotten for hundreds of years so no composers during this time were influenced by him at all. Of course, they were influenced by his huge family of musicians.

althuogh Mozart studied him. theres a story that says mozart at age 7 or 8 or something went to a church with tons of Bach music, and spent an entire week just reading all the music sheets.

That's just one of the many legends that surround Mozart's life. There was also the very famous legend of how, in one evening, when he was going to sleep, Mozart, as a kid, hear a certain chord (I know its name but not in English), a chord which always, in tonal classical music, requires "solving" into another chord, and so he lit up his candle and walked up many many stairs through the dark to get to the piano and play the last chord, so he can go to sleep. However...

Spoiler :

I've been to Mozart's house in Salzburg and it has no second floor!!

 

[Marla_Singer]

In terms of legacy, then there's no question to ask. It's all about Johan Sebastian Bach. He's at the basics of all the music we know today. Tough to do better than that.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Even though Bach was such a genius, there is something with his music that I can't get behind. His music seems hollow to me. He wrote all this crazy counter-point fugue stuff (the technical terms, I know ), but somehow the music doesn't move me.

It moves me. Its like hes thinking all this time while hes composing, "GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!! IM ANGRY, REALLY ANGRY AND INSANE!!! I DONT WANT MOZART TO BE MORE FAMOUS THAN ME!!!!! YARRRR!!!!!!!"

 

[West 36]

A friend of mine did a fake interview with Mozart. He asked them way he was killing his chickens, to which Mozart responded, "they keep saying bach bach bach!" ha. 5th grade was a blast.

Tchaichovsky.

 

[Felix Luce]

The Magic Flute is basically two and a half hours of variations on the Canon.

Don't deny it, you listen to the Queen sing of her rage boiling inside her every night!