For me, Handel:
Mozart is reputed to have said of him, “Handel understands affect better than any of us. When he chooses, he strikes like a thunder bolt.”[159] To Beethoven he was “the master of us all… the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb.”[159]
For me, Handel: Mozart is reputed to have said of him, “Handel understands affect better than any of us. When he chooses, he strikes like a thunder bolt.”[159] To Beethoven he was “the master of us all… the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb.”[159]