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In Reply to SE (this is getting interesting)

HI SE,
While I realize that music may hold as its purpose the solving of certain technical problems and, if those are satisfactorily solved, the music may be said to be successful, I feel that definition is too narrow.

For me, the purpose of music is to communicate the intensions of the composer in order to emotionally involve the listener. Just how he goes about doing that is a technical detail that is mostly hidden from the listener-one we are not aware of. If one walks away from a concert saying, “Wow, did your hear the way he resolved that key modulation”, that’s an interesting detail that has nothing to do with my overall impression of the music. If I walk away unmoved, the music has failed its purpose FOR ME. Is this personal? Of course-can it be else wise?

I love Van Gogh. All day long I could wax enthusiastic about his use of color, the shape of his brush strokes, his application of pigment, his representation of light, his tragic life, etc. But in the final analysis none of these things matter. What does matter is how his work strikes me in my emotional centers. That’s all that counts. To me, that’s what all art (music included) is about and nothing else. I’ll leave the technical details to the academics.

I want you to pay close attention here. It is very clear to me that while I generally consider Mozart’s music superficial, and that he was a superficial person, he was moving into a period of his life where he was going to overcome his superficiality. His late music was starting to emotionally fulfill the promise of his technical and aesthetic potential. There is no telling where he could have taken his music if only he had had the time. We will never know. Perhaps he had reached his artistic zenith but I doubt it.

I think it is a great tragedy that the world was robbed of Mozart’s potential. Much of his late music moves me to tears. In fact, the contrast between his earlier and later work underlines his youthful superficiality. Unwittingly, Mozart himself points out the emotional lack in his early music by writing such effective late music.

Do you agree?

Sparky

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