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What does it mean?
Mozart has beauty so rich it can overwhelm listeners.
In plain terms
Too much beauty can hide the whole.
What can you take from it?
Abundance can obscure unity.

Where it applies

  • listening to long symphonies
  • reviewing works
  • teaching composition

Putting it to work

  • note density
  • compare sections

Questions to consider

  • When does too much become too much?
  • What balances beauty and clarity?

Another view

Some listeners may not find it tiring.

More from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  1. I never heard so much content in so short a period. ~ Pinchas Zukerman

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  2. The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. ~ Richard Wagner

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  3. Mozart's music is very mysterious. ~ Walter J. Turner

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