This little movement is actually one of my favorite works by Mozart. Here, it's almost like he's letting everything go wild and saying "I'm just doing this because I'm better than everybody else."
It looks so simple on the paper, like some beginner's work, but when you actually hear it, you find out that it is a wonderful, magnificent, powerful, inspiring and superbly outstanding piece of music...
Music Hall the beauty of it is that it really is as simple as it seems. It’s a trifle of measures moving in major keys C, G, D, E and a few minor ones D, A, and C. It’s just Mozart’s ability to know when to move from chord to chord that makes this amazing. The melodic rhythm is incredibly basic, the harmony and voices stay in a very enclosed range, but the big picture is perfection, as is expected from Mozart.
This is actually a unique opera by Mozart, as it’s one of the very rare times he calls for percussion besides just timpani drums (this opera uses a triangle, cymbal, and a type of concert tom-toms as well)
Mozart was not just a Genius , Miracle, Supreme and so on at Music, but he was also a very intelligent observer....He observed the Turkish Ottoman Empire very well and made this Magnificent Opera....You will always be in our hearts...
the wonderful thing is austria and ottomans allied against russia formally or informally after mozarts time. i think this opera is the first depiction of ottomans as human beings, apart from enemy.
Looking at the notes, they are in such a balance and harmony, almost childishly simple yet complex as the Universe. They look like formulas, just formulas of the highest kind: simple yet complex. What is this?
Yes i'm late :P But I just wanted to say that the removal of one note would already destroy this great composition and that's what it was supposed to be. Short but very complicated
This could be played to clips of Bush and Blair hatching plans to invade Iraq, with news interviews, Blair addressing parliament and Bush addressing the nation from inside the White house. I remember watching the live news feed of the bombs repeatedly striking targets across the river at night in Baghdad. The bombs would go off in time with the beat, 'dum dum dum!'. Then, during the last 15 seconds of climax, all of the blood and carnage. And right at the end Bush saying, 'now watch this drive'.
