What is your favorite Mozart symphony?

Thanks, Schubert

Hi Schubert - yes, I also love those early Haydn symphonies you mentioned.

Your post about geniuses, on the other hand....OK, I agree with Mozart, and perhaps Schubert. But Mendelssohn?? Child prodigy, yes. However, his later output never quite matched up to the brilliance of his earlier work. Geniuses keep developing, getting better and better. Another qualification would be at least originality, if not an iconoclast. So for me, Mendelssohn does not come close to qualifying for the genius tag. To add just a few, I would say Beethoven, Wagner, Stravinsky, Bartok. When we add back in Bach and Mozart, it would be hard to find another to equal those six in sheer compositional craft. Perhaps Richard Strauss, who once hilariously bragged he could set a laundry list to music. There are of course many levels and types of genius. The music to Midsummer Night's Dream is possibly the greatest piece ever written by a teenager. I suppose this is really a silly topic, but a fun one to discuss anyway.

Below is the information for Lowrider.

The collector edition was issued in 2006 and used the original-image bit-processing technology mastered by Emil Berliner Studios.

The more recent release of "Karl Bohm: The Symphonies" in 2013 doesn't mention the mastering processes at all.

Many thanks, Yu11375. I've been listening on YouTube and Bohm really has a way with Mozart that I like very much.

Learsfool, I guess that's why I said perhaps with Mendelsssohn.
Obviously all you mention were great masters of the compositional art but I still maintain of all those you mention only Mozart and Schubert had true genius even
though Bach was the greatest .
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