WI: Mozart lives longer?

Since I am a somewhat dedicated music fan, I would like to see what would happen if Mozart lived longer.

The POD is that Mozart never gets sick while writing the now famous Requiem. How does this affect Western music tradition?
 

Yuelang

Banned
Mozarts survival would mean he will end up tutoring several young talents instead of being one genius wonder. We could predictably said something about "Mozart style music" being far more widespread by his students.

Though in return, expect some other musicians to end up less well known than OTL With Mozarts poisoner as the starting point
 
Mozarts survival would mean he will end up tutoring several young talents instead of being one genius wonder. We could predictably said something about "Mozart style music" being far more widespread by his students.

Though in return, expect some other musicians to end up less well known than OTL With Mozarts poisoner as the starting point

:confused: Mozart wasn't poisoned. That was invented by Peter Schaffer (sp.).

He probably died of kidney disease.
 
We get a longer-lived whiny man-child who can't manage his money and can't take responsibility. No offense to Mozart but I love the music, detest the composer.

Also, I think it will definitely be worse for composers who were brilliant in their own right, but are nowhere near as famous as Mozart (i.e. Hoffmeister, Kraus, Eggert, Vanhal, Kozeluch, Pleyel and Rigel)
 

Yuelang

Banned
um, so the film Amadeus is wrong? Salieri didn't poison Mozart's wine at all?

*checks some google articles*

Dang, blast the film! Cause of Misconception! :p:p:p:p:D
 
We get a longer-lived whiny man-child who can't manage his money and can't take responsibility. No offense to Mozart but I love the music, detest the composer.

Also, I think it will definitely be worse for composers who were brilliant in their own right, but are nowhere near as famous as Mozart (i.e. Hoffmeister, Kraus, Eggert, Vanhal, Kozeluch, Pleyel and Rigel)

Absolutely agree. I also doubt that Mozart could have lived for more than 10 years longer than he really did. IIRC, he was already not in the best of health.
 
One interesting possibility is Mozart lives long enough to produce some recognizably bad music. Now, before anyone dies of a spasm, my reasoning goes something like this:
1.No one, even a musical genius, scores a hit every time.
2.A diva like Mozart couldn't have been very popular on a personal level.
One could posit a tl where his personal foes, especially those with influence and access, would so publicize his failures that his long-term reputation suffers. Or, perhaps, enough attention is attached to his career that the myths are more swiftly dispatched.
 
One interesting possibility is Mozart lives long enough to produce some recognizably bad music. Now, before anyone dies of a spasm, my reasoning goes something like this:
1.No one, even a musical genius, scores a hit every time.
2.A diva like Mozart couldn't have been very popular on a personal level.
One could posit a tl where his personal foes, especially those with influence and access, would so publicize his failures that his long-term reputation suffers. Or, perhaps, enough attention is attached to his career that the myths are more swiftly dispatched.

The problem with this is that Mozart's music (in particular - but this is also true of many other great composers) is generally reckoned to have improved, and greatly so, during his lifetime. More of his standard masterpieces date from the end of his life (Requiem, Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Symphony no.40, Great Mass (1783, but it's his last mass), some of the last piano concertos). One of the exceptions would be the piano sonata KV 310 (from 1778).

Moreover, most bad music does not attach a bad name to its composer, it only gets forgotten (as long as said composer also write great works).
And Mozart did write some really bad music, although it was on purpose. (Warning: that “thing” is over 20 minutes long...).
 
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