Due to discussion below I decided to delete this and create a new thread: Talk Classical's Most Recommended Composers
I don't think that this is the case, as J.S. Bach's could also be seem as a god of the keyboard and his music is even older than Mozart's. I've seem a good deal of people favouring Haydn's piano music over Mozart's aswell.As a casual piano player I feel that Beethoven, Chopin are revered like gods of piano by many piano students today (while Mozart is criticized for not having met their standard) mainly because Beethoven and Chopin's style of piano writing greatly benefited from the advancement of the piano technology starting around 1800, which suits the general piano fans' taste better.
Their works in this medium are much more drammatic and intense than those of Mozart in my opinion. I listen to Wolfgang's sonatas almost everyday, and think that they are light and fun, but would never think of them as being the core of Mozart's repertoire alone. I favour Beethoven's Pathetique and Moonlight sonatas over any solo keyboard work I know by Mozart, as in my opinion they're more emotionally profound and at least as good in form, and these are far from being my favorite Beethoven sonatas.Likewise, I feel that some of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas and much of Chopin's output consisting of miniatures are not up to the quality, but are revered just because they're core of the curriculum and the fandom keeps using expressions like "New Testament of Piano Music" to describe them and don't take time themselves to look carefully if the works are truly that great.
I think of Beethoven's last three piano sonatas as the epitome of his work in that genre, and Op. 111's second movement sounds as the work of a visionary dreamer for me. It's so lyric, profound, complex, daring. I would take it anyday against any Mozart piano composition, including here the piano concertos such as K466.I hate to say this again but, I find the second movement of Beethoven's Op.111, for example, a little weak and disappointing (in terms of sense of direction) for something I would expect from Beethoven, (I already explained, it's not something you would expect from the same composer of Apassionata and Tempest sonatas
One could also argue that K475, K511, K394 and K397 look conservative and almost unoriginal when compared to Beethoven's Choral Fantasia, Op. 80. It could be argued also that the true master of the Classical fantasy of the eighteenth century was C.P.E. Bach, not Mozart.As I said there are lots of people who criticize Mozart sonatas for not being as good as Beethoven, but won't see that both composers simply had their own individuality:
By their logic, one can also make an argument about Beethoven's Fantasie Op.77 not being as good as Mozart's K475, K511, K394, K397
I haven't noticed this trend. What I have noticed is that there are certain members who can't see straight when it comes to their favorite composer, and I might be one of them.However, I've noticed a trend on this forum that Bach-lovers are more critical of Beethoven, while Beethoven lovers are more accepting of Bach.
But other people are also guilty of doing the opposite, People like BrahmsWasAGreatMelodist almost 'ridicule' (for lack of a better term) Mozart by giving him '1' in solo instrumental. I object by giving reasons why I think Mozart is more underrated than Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert in solo keyboard genres. The only difference between my behavior and theirs is that I write more stuff.I think that it would be great to know your ideas about his great musical accomplishments, if only you would stop your crusade against Beethoven and the romantic composers.
Both were geniuses but Chopin had a distinct advantage by writing almost exclusively for the piano and wrote in a way that was distinctly idiomatic in its fingering and natural to the instrument that Mozart never did because they represented different eras. Nevertheless, Mozart's piano sonatas and concertos are great music though not necessary advancing the technical development of the instrument. I think of Mozart's operas and symphonies first rather than his great works for the piano. With Chopin, his works are specifically tailored to take full advantage of the entire range of the keyboard technically, harmonically, and in the piano's textures and sonorities. He did things that could NOT done in a symphony orchestra. This is why most pianists particularly value his creative works as being at the summit of piano literature. By for gawd's sake, must they always be pitted against each other like race horses at the Kentucky Derby?There are absolutely no grounds to claim Mozart was less influential in history of keyboard music than say, Chopin...