Quote Originally Posted by jonnyblade
How is Mozart the greatest genius in any field??? It sounds silly, I am sure he was inventing electricity while performing brain surgery and mastering kung fu. He may have been a brilliant man with some new ideas, but put him here today and he wouldnt look so smart...
that's not a very well-informed opinion at all. mozart taught himself to play violin at four, could write entire masses and symphonies in his head, had perfect pitch, wrote his first symphony when he was seven, improvised several-voiced fugues when he was five, and wrote music so accessible yet complex it's beyond comprehension.

the man was a supergenius. nothing comes close to the the multitonal complexity of the final movement of "jupiter" while at the same time being well-developed and listenable.