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Enough Mozart, cont.

Posted at 1:35 PM on February 14, 2006 by John Birge
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Albert Einstein said that while Beethoven created his music, Mozart's "was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master." That's what is so remarkable; it exists on the human scale and the infinite scale at the same time! And it reveals the infinite in humanity. It's all there. Question for my friend Don Lee: what's missing in Mozart that you find in Bach?

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