Deryk Barker wrote in regard to Bob Draper's remarkable comment that
Mozart's best concerti were not on a par with Beethoven's better concerti:

>>I don't think Beethoven himself would have agreed with you BTW.  He made a
>>remark to Schindler IIRC regarding K.466 on the lines that neither of them
>>would ever produce anything so wonderful.  Anyone got the exact quote?
>
>I'm going from memory, but (a) I believe the reference was to the c-minor
>concerto (no. 24), and (b) that the comment was something like, "Such
>things are denied to the likes of you and me."

Beethoven to Cramer on Mozart K.491: "Cramer! Cramer! Wir werden niemals
im Stande sein, etwas Ahnliches zu machen".

Regards,
Joyce Maier ([log in to unmask])