Given the task definition and input, reply with output. You are given a sentence in Portuguese. Your job is to translate the Portuguese sentence into English.

Mesmo os três ícones da música clássica — Bach, Beethoven, Mozart — tiveram de criar centenas e centenas de composições até chegarem a um número muito menor de obras-primas.

Even the three icons of classical music — Bach, Beethoven, Mozart — had to generate hundreds and hundreds of compositions to come up with a much smaller number of masterpieces.