If Mozart lived longer...

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What would his legacy on music be?

Probably the same. He was firmly a classic and gave as far as I know no hint of being anything else (unlike Beethoven who despite being a classic has been seen as a precursor by the romantics). We might have been spared Amadeus, though.
 
Probably the same. He was firmly a classic and gave as far as I know no hint of being anything else (unlike Beethoven who despite being a classic has been seen as a precursor by the romantics). We might have been spared Amadeus, though.

Which means people won't view Salieri as evil.
 
That, too, lol. Probably a slightly stuffier, slightly more academic german composer (yes I know he was italian but it's a stylistic thing, at the time he was considered a german school composer).

Who knows? Maybe--just maybe, he's heralded as the vital protoromantic he was. (First composer to do an opera without recitative. Which was performed continuously for nearly thirty years.)
 
SavoyTruffle said:
What would his legacy on music be?

Mozart was a genius composer. He would probably write down several other classic masterpieces.
One immediate thing that would be sure is that he would finish his Requiem since he died before having finished it (which is quite ironic : dying while writing a Requiem...). The unfinished Mozart's Requiem is one of his beautifulest pieces, I can't imagine how better it would be if finished.

By the way, didn't he died around 1790? If he lived longer, wouldn't he have to face the events of the French Revolution, like Beethoven did?
If so, it would be interesting to see how Mozart would act.
 
If he'd had children, might they have been figures in musical history too, like the kids of Bach?

But of course they can't outshine their father, unless they manage to be more exceptional.

Part of Mozart's appeal is that he's like an 18th century rockstar - very talented, quite popular in important circles, but died young.
 
Gurps Alternate Earths suggested he could've made an opera based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and started the Romantic era some decades earlier. They speculated that Richard Wagner wouldn't have to do anything anymore - and if Hitler still lived, what kind of music would he like, then?
 
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