Imitation is the Highest Form of Flattery

Mozart was, among many things, tireless when working to hone his own skills of composition! While working for one Baron von Swieten, Mozart actually studied and "copied out" works of Bach and Handel. In Mozart's great C Minor Mass, those influences are strongly audible! If you have familiarity with Handel's "Messiah" or Bach's B Minor Mass", you will instantly spot the influence of the two older masters within the work of the younger!