I am convinced that the Galant style was a very rhetorical style, much like the French Baroque, where you have to get the gestures and nuance right or it just sounds terrible. It takes a lot of style to get the music off the page ... I played a lot of the Mozart sonatas when I was young. I have never done any research regarding the early Classical era or what came immediately before it (but I find the things you are mentioning very interesting). I think that to get the music off the page, Mozart demands unbelievable attention to all possible details and gestures as well as extreme precision and even then the results are not inspiring. I just do not find it great music. Its quite possible, I think (and know), to play Bach or Beethoven (or Liszt) and if you play a note or two notes wrong or even if you miss a whole measure, there is still a chance to do something musically satisfying, its not per se ruined, but it would be in a Mozart piece. Two years ago, there was a student here who came close to improvisation in the middle of a Scriabin poem. Musically speaking, I didnt find the result so bad at all. I found that quite interesting.
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