In Your Opinion, Who is the Absolute Musical Genius?

Yes, sorry Paolo, I also meant to include the works... anyway, I agree with your thought, the two things go very well together and masterpieces are often created.

sometimes I like to joke around and see the ironic side 😆

And you are doing very well... it's just that usually I am used to taking things in a different way...

Hey... Hi! Did you miss me? Well, this is one of the few times I'll be able to come back here with you, at least until the end of August...

So, I've fallen very far behind, I see...

First of all, the poem "On Intelligence": truly very beautiful, I would say it makes one reflect through a simple and effective style on the complicated cognition of the human soul regarding its own intelligence... Simone, give my compliments to Dad Alberto as well... After all, such a poet... Such a pianist, right?

Then: I also knew the definition cited by Paolo about "playing Mozart"... I would say it is very... spot on, even if in reality it must have been studied for a while...

That's all for now. But I'll keep myself updated... Bye!!

@TheSimon

Simone, sorry for the delay in my response, but I only have access to a PC again today.

Your father is a great man and this poem of absolute depth confirms it, as do your upbringing and personality.

A compliment from me and see you again soon!

I wanted to ask if by any chance any of you has a sheet music of the Bolero with the piano part available... It would be a great pleasure!

In my opinion, absolute genius cannot be found. Why? Simply because it does not exist.

For example, Mozart's music, to my ears, is missing something: I don't know exactly what (one thing I sense is that Mozartian prettiness is torn apart by a violent summer storm of Beethoven's messy locks), but I do not find the same emotions that I have with Beethoven's music; yet when I hear Beethoven's music, I feel a certain similarity to Brahms, but in a way that Beethoven cannot express, and vice versa, etc.... One could also draw parallels in modern music: who else but Jimi Hendrix expressed the essence of freedom through blues, transforming the annoying feedback of guitar pickups into melody, yet failing to express, for example, the harmonic simplicity of the Beatles, who in turn lacked the immediacy of Hendrix, who however lacked the rawness of heavy metal, which fails to produce the disorientation produced by jazz with its crazy improvisations on unconventional harmonies, etc...

I hope I have come across as confused: the search for absolute genius is this: confusion!

One could go on infinitely (which in this case is "finite," since people and therefore composers are many, but in finite numbers, yet the number of combinations and emotions is so great that it seems infinite to the human mind) in searching for genius.

Gennarino said it well! Music is what's important! Physics is what's important! Performers are very important, but compared to the total, absurdly speaking, they are of little importance compared to their discoveries, compared to themselves and to the subject matter in which they have studied and worked!

P.S.

I realize this is a crude reasoning, but quoting from my book on machine building: "... if the boy is a bit crude, let him be the auctioneer, or the engineer."

I fully agree with your reasoning Andrea, in my opinion too there is no absolute genre of music (even if I prefer some composers over others). And don't worry, with your words you made the concept very clear 😳!

Musical genius cannot be found because, in my opinion, every noted composer has their own style, so the opinion in this case can only be subjective; that is, each of us may prefer one composer over another, but perhaps they are both great...

So for me, the absolute genius of music does not exist...