It's funny you mentioned Beethoven and Mozart, because in the classical world they are perfect examples of talent vs hard work. Mozart was a prodigy, his work had no revisions, making music was just something he did for money that he found easy. Beethoven on the other hand slaved away at his music doing countless revisions and having a substantially smaller musical output. yet nowadays i think most classical music snobs would tell you that beethoven was the better composer. more feeling in his work i think.
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