Returning to Mozart's 'Gran Partita' serenade after a long time away. Even in such a relatively early and light work, what a stunning genius and complete human embodied in sound.
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Newton's insights and works considered as their component parts were inevitable in a way Mozart's were not. What an incalculable boon to the species that he happened to be born and happened to give the world this music.
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Mozart's music sounds inevitable after you have heard it, but that's a trick. "Of course that motif needed an ornament that time around" -- "of course that movement needed a substantial coda" -- "of course that section needed that contrasting emotion or rhythm or key"
