Who was the smartest composer?
Mozart. It's a name that's almost synonymous with musical talent and genius.
Re: Most Intelligent Composers
For me it has to be Bach, followed by Mozart as a close second. There are many others who over around ths spot but they all fall short by some margin, however small.
With 16 of the 300 most popular works having come from his pen, Mozart remains a strong contender but ranks second after Ludwig van Beethoven, overtaking Amadeus with 19 of his works in the Top 300 and three in the Top 10.
My top spot goes to Bach, for his matchless combination of masterly musical engineering (as one reader put it) and profound expressivity. Since writing about Bach in the first article of this series I have been thinking more about the perception that he was considered old-fashioned in his day.
There is no doubt that Bach was a musical genius, but what clues did he leave behind to reveal his actual IQ? 165. That's the number music scholars and scientists have landed upon for their best guess as to J.S. Bach's IQ.
| Name | Dates | Obtained Est. IQ* |
|---|---|---|
| Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | 155 |
| Byron, George Gordon | 1788-1824 | 170 |
| Robespierre, M. Isidore de | 1758-1794 | 145 |
| Burns, Robert | 1759-1796 | 130 |
Bach was a master of virtually every musical form of his day. He mastered the church organ and the scoring and presentation of German church chorales. We see this in the able and often brilliant chorale-based cantatas he churned out weekly over several years during his tenure in Leipzig.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is popularly acclaimed as the greatest musical genius of all time. A child prodigy who wrote his first musical pieces aged five, he produced more than 600 works before his death aged just 35.
1. He composed masterfully in every musical format. Operas, choral works, concertos, symphonies, chamber music, solo songs, sonatas… Mozart was one of the few composers in history to compose masterworks in every conceivable musical genre.
Beethoven describes Mozart performing
We know this because Beethoven's student Carl Czerny, who was a reliable reporter, heard Beethoven describing Mozart's playing, which he said was fine but choppy, and without much legato.
Who is greatest pianist of all time?
- Sergei Rachmaninoff. Born in Russia in 1873, Rachmaninov graduated from the Moscow Conservatorium in the same class as Alexander Scriabin. ...
- Arthur Rubinstein. ...
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ...
- Vladimir Horowitz. ...
- Emil Gilels. ...
- Ludwig van Beethoven.
Bach is the greatest prolific composer, Bach's contemporary, Georg Philipp Telemann, is credited by the Guiness Book of World Records as the most prolific, having written over 3,000 compositions, including 1,000 church cantatas, as well as numerous other instrumental works.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91) was an Austrian composer. Mozart composed music in several genres, including opera and symphony. His most famous compositions included the motet Exsultate, Jubilate, K 165 (1773), the operas The Marriage of Figaro (1786) and Don Giovanni (1787), and the Jupiter Symphony (1788).
BONN (IDN) – The year 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven, the famous composer and pianist, well known all over the world. He was a genius with a disability.
Beethoven called Bach the "Urvater der Harmonie" ("Original father of harmony") and, in a pun on the literal meaning of Bach's name, "nicht Bach, sondern Meer" ("not a brook, but a sea").
Beethoven's music is superior because it has all of the structural perfection of a Mozart or Haydn, but also fiery emotion that has more direct impact than either. Thus, his music is more emotionally complex while structural brilliant...his music has it all. Beethoven had more global impact.
Mozart is perhaps the greatest composer in history. In a creative lifetime spanning only 30 years but featuring more than 600 works, he redefined the symphony, composed some of the greatest operas ever written and lifted chamber music to new heights of artistic achievement.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, and died on December 5, 1791, while Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770, and died on March 26, 1827. 3. Both were very gifted and versatile, but Mozart's music was easy to play even by the less skilled while Beethoven's was hard.
Beethoven is widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived, in no small part because of his ability—unlike any before him—to translate feeling into music. His most famous compositions included Symphony No.
