
La casa natale di Mozart a Salzburg. Foto ©Tourismus Salzburg GmbH
Mozart’s influence transcends history. Each generation sees something different in his work. Mozart’s music, which to so many of his contemporaries still seemed to have the brittleness of clay, has long since been transformed into gold gleaming in the light, though it has taken on the different luster of each new generation No earthly remains of Mozart survived save a few wretched portraits, no two of which are alike; the fact that all the reproductions of his death-mask, which would have shown him as he really was, have crumbled to bits seems symbolic. It is as though the world-spirit wished to show that here is pure sound, conforming to a weightless cosmos, triumphant over all chaotic earthliness, spirit of the world-spirit.
- Alfred Einstein, Mozart: His Character, His Work, Oxford University Press 1945
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