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In Reply to: RE: Sad? I'm tired of Mozart. Look on the bright side. posted by andy evans on January 18, 2015 at 15:51:53
I finally understand why R Strauss idolized Mozart.
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If you do one thing in life, learn to appreciate Mozart! You'll wonder how anyone could exist without having done so.
First you have to get over the smell the rest is easy? Surely there is a better way to enjoy things.
dee
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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I wouldn't know, since I'm told I loved Mozart before I could walk.
we were introduces way after i learned to like other kinds of music. My old friend Mihaly Virizlay of the BSO ,when he was still alive tried to get me to like Mozart, he failed. Since he is gone, every once in a while in his memory, i try to like Mozart...just cannot get over the attitude.
dee
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
Well, Mozart wanted to be loved for his talent. Can you blame him? His father famously wept when he played the second violin part in a string quartet without ever having played the violin. Think about what it means to have such a talent as a child, and to be exhibited and fawned over as a result. I'm just grateful that he had that talent, and that in his tragically brief life he wrote so many great works. I think it would be a poor world indeed if no one were a better musician than I am, or brain surgeon or bricklayer!
And don't forget too that according to contemporary accounts, he studied and practiced very hard to accomplish what he did -- without that, mere talent goes nowhere. The notion that he created music without thought and revision, as if by magic, was partly marketing on his part, and partly fabrication by others.
. . . the Mozart manuscripts show relatively little editing or revision, with some exceptions, such as the C-minor Piano Concerto, K. 491, which shows struggle amidst his "dark thoughts". I must say that although I do like many of Mozart's works, there are others which just sound (to me at least) facile.
Yeah, but I've read that Mozart destroyed his sketches to bolster his image.
None of this is to discount his astounding musical gifts, to which there is much attestation. But the belief that many have, owing in part to a letter from Mozart that's now known to be a fabrication in which he supposedly claimed that his works came to him in a flash of inspiration, that he saw everything in his head and just wrote it down is an exaggeration.
I think the facile works are basically either works written when he was young, which unfortunately is most of what we have from Mozart -- there was enormous emotional and musical growth after he turned 30 -- or pleasant works that he churned out in vast quantities to pay the rent an that have nuggets of genius that he didn't have time to work out. Really, if you look at the youthful works of most great composers, you'll see a similar pattern -- flashes of genius along with musical immaturity and a style that's still heavily dependent on that of established composers. When you get to the great period you're hearing another Mozart altogether, and this Mozart is anything but facile, even in lighthearted works like The Magic Flute or Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
. . . just a couple of days after Mozart died, that he had finally gotten the position at St. Stephen's? To me, this is one of the biggest disasters in the history of music. We can only imagine what he would have composed in such a position! How many more works of the quality of the C-minor Mass or the Requiem? Unbelievable!
OTOH, I do cringe at some of that Papageno/Papagena stuff in The Magic Flute. ;-)
Really. The loss is incalculable. Who knows what heights he would have reached had his development continued?
Hey, I like the Papageno/Papagena stuff. :-)
I can barely make a three line asylum post without a few major edits, he wrote whole operas without a single one, my mind just does not work that way, and his music forces me into that precise tedium that i abhor :). I marvel at his ability to do work like that,but still cannot like it :).
dee
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
quote by Kurt Vonnegut
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