Thursday, May 23, 2019

Better than his legend …

 Mozart: Rational revolutionary. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Paul Johnson, in his biography of Mozart, notes that he lived in a society that thrived on credit and that the debts Mozart left behind were paid off in rather a short time, indicating that his grasp of finances may have been sounder than we think.
I don't have any problem listening to Mozart. He is always wonderful company, and he has a very wide range of moods. Listen to this version of his String Quintet in C:

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