“True perfection in all things is no longer known nor prized—one must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligible that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.”
Mozart, writing to his father in 1782
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Reblogged this on Annie at the Hall and commented:
So true! I think it was Rubinstein who said that Mozart is only for children and old people — his music is so transparent that you have to utterly lack self-consciousness to play his music!
I’ve heard that too – that you shouldn’t play Mozart between the ages of 12 and 30. Pause for thought…
That friggin genius! He really did!!
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