Heavenly!
There’s a scene towards the beginning of Amadeus where Antonio Salieri, the highly successful but essentially pedestrian composer, has grown old and largely been forgotten. He plays some of his music for a visiting priest, but, alas, the priest recognizes none of it. Then Salieri changes expression and begins another piece, which the priest recognizes instantly, and begins to hum along with, smiling in delight. “So charming, so lovely,” he exclaims. “Is that really yours?” “No,” Salieri retches. “That was Mozart.”
It is, indeed, Mozart:
All the music from the this series can be found and enjoyed here.
A quote from Volume 12 of the 1982 Britianicca, P 603 on Mozart. “Altogether it is possible that in Mozart the music of Western Civilization reached an apex of perfection to which future ages will look back, just as for centuries, men regarded with nostalgia the products of ancient Greece at the summit of its achievements” I would tend to agree that to this date at least Mozart is probably the apex of western Music.Report