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It is significant, here, that some musicians regard Mozart as a greater
composer than Haydn even though they allow that Haydn was more
adventurous, more ready to transform contemporary musical styles.
Mozart's superiority, on this view, lay in his fuller exploration (and
tweaking) of musical space, his ability to amaze us by showing us
what unsuspected glories lie within this familiar space. Whether this
musical judgment is faithful to Haydn's and Mozart's work is irrele-
vant. The point is that it is one which can intelligibly be made. It
follows that no creativity metric could be adequate that ignored struc-
tural exploration, focusing only on structural transformation.