tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post6177771571780310886..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Mozart: Marriage of Figaro, Act II, FinaleBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-58332386393491037162015-09-08T14:25:28.301-05:002015-09-08T14:25:28.301-05:00That's a very good question, David! Certainly ...That's a very good question, David! Certainly the Farewell Symphony and a couple of other symphonies. The quartets op 20 and 33 and in that I am joined by the testimony of Donald Francis Tovey. Perhaps the Seven Last Words?<br /><br />ACD, I agree in every respect, except that Mozart even created some of the tools and forms such as the synthesis of opera seria and buffa that we see in the Da Ponte operas.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-1905679373647189232015-09-08T13:41:28.311-05:002015-09-08T13:41:28.311-05:00When [one] say[s] that every couple of months [Moz...<i>When [one] say[s] that every couple of months [Mozart] wrote something of real genius this means that every couple of months he wrote something that was as good if not better than what most composers manage once in their lives. If that.</i><br />————————————————————<br /><br />Yes indeed. M was indeed that transcendent a genius. It's not for nothing he's often referred to as the divine Wolfgang. And that genius was on display in its fullest flower in his mature operas for M was an opera composer to his very core. One can hear it even in his symphonies and especially in his piano concerti. It's one of my pet conceits that had M lived out his biblically allotted three-score-and-ten in good health it would have been M, not Wagner, who would have been responsible for what we today call Wagnerian music-drama. He was almost there even while being restricted to working with only the (by comparison with Wagner) limited musical tools and forms at his disposal.<br /><br />ACDA.C. Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12090447201234367871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-72115726847176764932015-09-08T13:37:52.825-05:002015-09-08T13:37:52.825-05:00Bryan, what is your "Tally of Genius" fo...Bryan, what is your "Tally of Genius" for Papa H, a favourite of yours (ours)?<br /><br />DavidDavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12037901644167481168noreply@blogger.com