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What does it mean?
Blount highlights Mozart's unique ability to mix formal structure with playful elements.
In plain terms
Mozart mixes serious rules with fun in a way no one else does.
What can you take from it?
Combining structure and play creates unique art.

Where it applies

  • composing
  • appreciating art
  • teaching

Putting it to work

  • blend styles
  • embrace play
  • study structure

Questions to consider

  • How does formality enhance play?
  • Can art be serious and fun at once?

Another view

This is subjective praise that may not apply to all of Mozart's works.

More from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  1. Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible. ~ Allan Bloom

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  2. In my dreams of heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite. ~ Victor Borge

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  3. Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another. ~ Claudio Arrau

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