favorite mozart on his birthday?

Way too many for me to list. I'll try to just select a few from each genre:


^ One of the handful of symphonies one could easily consider the best ever. That finale never fails to give me chills and frequently brings me to tears with its sheer, heavenly perfection.


^ Also one of the handful of operas that one could easily consider the best ever. Only Wagner's masterpieces vie with Mozart's mature masterpieces for that distinction. Hell, it's impossible to even choose between Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Cosi fan Tutte; they're all essentially perfect.


^ How does one choose between Mozart's piano concertos? So many of them are masterpieces and the cycle stands as the greatest concerto cycle of all time. I choose this one only because it's often considered to be the precursor to the romantic concerto, but one could just as easily choose 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, or 25.


^ Of his other concertos, this is an easy choice. Simply one of the most sublime pieces of music ever written for any instrument.


^ Mozart's solo piano music is often overlooked, but in pieces like this you can hear the roots of what Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and others would later develop.


^ Mozart's chamber music is also vastly underrated. This is one of his many masterpieces that so few have heard.


^ Mozart must've really loved the clarinet; how else to explain how he wrote arguably the two greatest pieces of music ever for the instrument?


^ Of course, there's also this towering, unfinished masterpiece that was so extraordinary even Beethoven called it "wild and terrible."

That's enough. I could post stuff all day. My favorite classical composer... probably my favorite musical artist of any kind ever.

^ Pretty sure it'd take people long enough to listen to the ones I already posted! Already that's ~7 hours of music.

I know there is a Jupiter Symphony on here already but one has to listen to Bruno Walter's rendition. Sublime.

Mozart - Symphony n°41 "Jupiter" - Columbia / Walter

And how could we forget Mozart's greatest hit, "Lick Me in the Ass".

The Marriage of Figaro - from Act IV ("Contessa perdono")

"The restored third act was bold, brilliant. The fourth... was astounding. l saw a woman disguised in her maid's clothes hear her husband speak the first tender words he'd offered her in years. Simply because he thinks she is someone else. l heard the music of true forgiveness filling the theater... conferring on all who sat there perfect absolution."

~ Amadeus ~