Mozart. I concur completely with Nicolas Slonimsky who, in his biographical dictionary of musicians, describes Mozart as the "supreme genius of music whose works in every genre are unsurpassed in lyric beauty, rhythmic variety, and effortless melodic invention."
I have to say Beethoven if I were picking between Mozart and Beethoven. his music is more dramatic and I finish listening with the feeling that there was not a single superfluous note in the work. But I do have to say that Bach in my mind beats the two of them.
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