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We also have to mention the marvelous series of Piano Concertos composed
in Vienna - filled with such poetry, charm and myriad emotions that it was if
they caused everything previously composed within the domain to languish.
And then there are the operas: Already by age 16, Mozart created such highly
original and mature music for
Lucio Silla
that only the great Gluck could
rival it.
Yet in the 1780
s
, he gave to a dumbstruck world
incapable of appreciating them, masterpieces which
are still being explored for their various facets, hidden
meanings and introspections.
From
Figaro
to
Così
, Wolfgang Amadeus teaches us that music itself, the
orchestra, the flute and the clarinet, can tell us asmuch about the psychology
of a protagonist that the lyrics that are sung can.
Maybe this isMozart’s secret: his entire instrumentation
is only a parade of symbolic or metaphorical characters
for which the inflections of a piano, the trill of a violin or
the lament of an oboe are expressing the truth about a
given feeling, a psychological approach similar to what
you’ll find in an operatic aria. This is definitely what
Strauss meant about Mozart never ceasing to sing.
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