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andsoitisyesterday at 7:07 AM1 replyview on HN

> Mozart wrote over 600 songs, but only about 50 of them are widely played.

Calling Mozart’s works “songs” is ignorant.

Mozart wrote some songs (“lieder”, or art songs for voice and piano), but his work spans operas, symphonies, concertos, chamber music, masses and other sacred music, and solo piano works.


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cess11yesterday at 11:37 AM

He also did some neat obscene works, like his classic Eat my ass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C78HBp-Youk