Amy Wilson:
Wouldn't Mozart fit this description? I'm going off the top of my head here, but I understand he wasn't original in his day, and didnt't try to be. In both the Baroque and Classical, the style seems to have been started by some lesser known composers, and then perfected by the big guys. I don't think pushing the envelope or originality became "cool" until Beethoven and the invention of romanticism
Monteverdi. Haydn (he even described himself as having been "forced to become an original"). Leonin. Dunstable. If these guys do not count as originals, then Beethoven doesn't either--in fact, nobody does, because artistic creation does not exist in a historical vacuum.
I do agree that Mozart was less path-breaking than other composers of similar stature.
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Andrew Stiller
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