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Did not expect one of the most unhinged discussions on HN to start over classical music but aight.

I have to say, I enjoyed "Nah Bach shits on Mozart" much more than I should have.

Is that because there is some more depth to the joke, that Mozart did this for real "when mozart was out touring europe getting drunk and shitting on women" - "shit on women"? So Bach metaphorically shits on Mozart for being the greater composer who was in it for the music and now gets more fame?

Because I was rather appalled by that language, but maybe lack background context.

Mozart loved wild parties and had a feces obsession. He also was born 6 years after Bach died so no, Bach didn't shit on Mozart, only the Academics do. The only shits Bach cared for was getting paid and making good music. Mozart on the other hand was "paraded across europe" but as a child. By the time he was an adult, he had a job. By the time America decided it had had enough of the British, Mozart left for Vienna.

I really want that to be the case, so I'm just retconning it.

Its well-known that Mozart had a poop obsession.

https://www.thepiano.sg/piano/read/mozart-and-his-infamous-l...

Hm. Not convinced that this qualifies for a poop obsession. Rather sounds like using language for a shock effect(on 2 occasions), but thanks for the link.

Well, in their family, they had a good-night verse that went like this. Maybe not an obsession but definitely a healthy interest!

Gute Nacht (good night)

Scheiss ins Bett dass es kracht (shit into the bed so that it bangs)

Reck den Arsch zum Mund (stretch your ass towards your mouth)

und sei recht kugelrund (and be spherically round))

And Mozart wrote a canon from it

"Buona Nox - bist a rechter Ox" (and the end of the text is what I wrote above)

When someone gushes over Bach, I tend to go off. Glad that others are just as knowledgeable as I am in Baroque.

Don't give up on him. You may surprise yourself one day.

I’ve heard everything Bach and still choose to not accept him on the upper shelf.

mozart was truly the R kelly of his time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mich_im_Arsch

Basically the first Disney Channel Child Star…

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