Mozart's Music is "Cutsy"

[applelover]

I don't know much about music, but I've played a little and heard maybe 10 of Mozart's easy piano pieces that a beginner piano player can play, and they seem really superficial.  "Cute" is the best word I can describe them with, fluffy, amusing... His Requiem is amazing but beyond that even his bigger later works don't seem as powerful as Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaicovsky, etc.

Do I not appreciate his music because I'm too new to classical music or do you guys also think a lot of his music is more superficial.  BTW, you might say that Mozart's easy piano pieces don't count, but Beethoven's easy piano pieces have something to them.  For instance his German Dances are really nice.

[zheer]

I can only comment on his piano sonatas since i have sight read through all of them, and i can only say they are the most beautifull and elegent piano compositions written for the piano. I hope one day i learn all of them and play them on a Stainway, perhaps my own Stainway.

[musik_man]

I agree that lots of his music is cutesy.  It's still great music.  Almost all the composers wrote lots of sad, or grandiose music.  A bit of happiness is refreshing.

[teresa_b]

Cutesy??   

Mozart's sonatas are wonderful and often light hearted.  Please have a listen to any or all of his last 23 piano concertos.  (Esp. no 9 and nos. 14 and up).  Mozart basically defined the Classical piano concerto, and these are all masterpieces.  There is humor, wit, delight, drama, pathos, prayerfulness, serenity, and sheer beauty. 

There is no "Cutesy."

Teresa

[chopiabin]

Listen to sonata in A minor K331.

[Kassaa]

Listen to sonata in A minor K331 K310.

[applelover]

is this sonata 8 in A minor or sonata 11 in A major

[applelover]

more suggestions please, set me straight!

[fuel925]

Listen to Fantasy In D Minor, about as non-cutesy as you can get

[applelover]

his music sounds different, lighter.  it sounds like mozart doesn't use many chords, is that part of it or am i completely off?

[mikey6]

If you don't like the 'cutesy' sounds (which I completely disagree with by the way), try some of the minor works - the cmin fantasia and sonata.  The 2 gmin symphonies - no. 40 and 25 I think.  The slow movement of the 23 piano concerto is sublime - the only piece he wrote in f#min.  The 'dissonance' quartet is one the the strangest works i've heard by him.  Or Don Giovanni if you're into opera.
The piano sonatas have pften been debated over as not being his best works but there is some gret music there.
There is a certain restraint to Mozart and to the classical period- his genius was to work within the rules of composition and didn't venture beyond them too often, he did however set the standard for the concerto which has not been surpassed.