Kruas' style could not be more different from Mozart's. Kraus should not be called "the Swedish Mozart." His style was much more sensitive at times but also more expressive with minor keys. Maybe he should be called "the First Romantic" instead.
Brian Knapp Agree absolutely about the nonsense of Kraus being the ‘Swedish Mozart’; he was German and his music does not sound like Mozart. (There is an equally silly ‘Spanish Mozart’ - Arriaga, though he at least is Spanish, though his music is more Haydn and Cherubini). Absolutely disagree about ‘the First Romantic’; Kraus is 100% Classical. I do agree however that there is something a little bit different about his music, hardly surprising from a composer Haydn called a ‘genius’ and whose early death he lamented in the same sentence as Mozart.
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Kruas' style could not be more different from Mozart's. Kraus should not be called "the Swedish Mozart." His style was much more sensitive at times but also more expressive with minor keys. Maybe he should be called "the First Romantic" instead.
Brian Knapp
Agree absolutely about the nonsense of Kraus being the ‘Swedish Mozart’; he was German and his music does not sound like Mozart.
(There is an equally silly ‘Spanish Mozart’ - Arriaga, though he at least is Spanish, though his music is more Haydn and Cherubini).
Absolutely disagree about ‘the First Romantic’; Kraus is 100% Classical.
I do agree however that there is something a little bit different about his music, hardly surprising from a composer Haydn called a ‘genius’ and whose early death he lamented in the same sentence as Mozart.