Greatest Composers of All Time

Greatest Composer? Hard choice. But the one Classical Composer that has the largest iconic status of all time is Beethoven. He has more books published and in print on him than any other. Mozart comes in second. His Symphonie's, Concerto's and Sonata's are globally recognized as the greatest ever wriiten. His music has been played more in motion picture's, TV Commercials and radio ads than any other composer. By 1805 the People of Vienna referred to Beethoven as the King of the Piano. Between 1792 and 1797 Beethoven beat the top three piano player's in Europe in competition's in the Palace's of Vienna. Those player's were Joseph Gelenek, Lipavsky, and Josef Wolffi. Winning competition's back then would secure you a one year contract to live in a Palace apartment as a house composer with a monthly salary and a horse and carriage. Beethoven never lost a competition. Beethoven is responsible for designing and giving birth to the first early Grand Piano due to his deafness. Around 1809 he drew sketches on paper of a piano with larger hammer's, longer piano string's, and more key's and sent his sketche's to the John Broadwood and Son's piano company in London. Broadwood built the piano. First of its kind.

Tostadosunidos..Mozart and Beethoven are the same generation..not a generation later. Mozart was born in 1756 and Beethoven was born in 1770. There has always been speculation that Beethoven had two private meetings with Mozart in Vienna in the Spring of 1787. Beeethoven was 16.
It was Beethoven's first trip to Vienna, but he had to return to Bonn in July upon receiving news his Mother was dying. Mozart died in December 1791 at the age of 35 from kidney failure. Several month's later Beethoven returned to Vienna and resided their until his death in March of 1827.

Learsfool.."Wagner is the most written about"...My post state's on Beethoven that book's published on Composer's that he has the largest volume of published books in print. Having owned a Publishing company for over ten year's and having done a major research project on Beethoven in 1998, his record with published book's is a statistical fact. I said nothing about "most written about", just books in print.

Mozart's Concerto's up against Beethoven's Emperor Concerto? No Way. The Emperor Concerto is Mount Everest and Mount Olympus combined. Can't touch it's majestic power.

The one Composer that is alway's ignored for the pioneering technique's he developed in 1705 in Venice is Violinist Antonio Vivaldi. He invented a bowing technique that became the standard for the Violin that spread all over Europe resulting in a major evolution that took violin playing too a whole new level.

Yeah...The Four Season's can get monotonous after awhile. Another Composer that deserve's attention from the same time period was Giovanni Sammartini who pioneered the structuring of the Concert Symphony. He wrote over eighty small scale symphonie's and influenced Bach and Haydn.