# Was Mozart A Hack? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 26, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-mozart-a-hack/370330 "2006-08-26T15:35:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-mozart-a-hack/370330/21 "2006-08-27T21:03:22Z")
[QUOTE=K364] . . . If he wrote simply (like the Sonata Facile or The Magic Flute), he knew it and it was intentional. [/QUOTE] I thought writing simply was one of the earmarks of a hack. As for the examples you requested, while I can “hear” a couple in my mind, I’ll be hanged if I can recall the titles. Perhaps the Fortieth Symphony you referenced? The Jupiter Symphony? The memory, she’s a-going fast. . . . [ **Tuckerfan** : seems I’ve heard that somewhere before. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-mozart-a-hack/370330/22 "2006-08-27T21:54:45Z")
Anyone recommend any iTunes Mozart? ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-mozart-a-hack/370330/23 "2006-08-31T19:31:31Z")
Well, a couple of examples _do_ come to mind. That much-too-much-played piano piece in C has a G-C-G-C-G progression at the end of the first section. And the Gloria from his 12th Mass alternates between tonic and dominant chords at several places (and some sections are pretty much all dominant-tonic progressions). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-mozart-a-hack/370330.md?page=1)