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Born soon after Handel had written his oratorio Jephtha and dead soon after Berlioz had written his Symphonie fantastique, Muzio Clementi didn’t write anything add up to the originality of these two composers — or, certainly, add up to the very best of his better contemporaries, Mozart and Haydn. However …

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had not been only 1 of the best composers from the Classical period, but one of the biggest ever. Surprisingly, he’s not determined with radical formal or harmonic improvements, or using the profound sort of symbolism noticed in a few of Bach’s functions. Mozart’s greatest music includes …