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Mozart: Love and Excellence

Dear all,

Right now, I'm listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto #18, KV 456, just one more example of this great genius' contributions to music.  As I listen, I ask, I always ask, if there is anything I've done that measures up to this or any other concerto, or for that matter any other work composed by Mozart.

As usual, I come up with a resounding "No."  This brings me to a life's recurrent theme, and that is how great is the genius of Mozart that even my best of whatever I've done pales next to even his most mediocre work.  (In fact, nothing of Mozart is mediocre.)  Mozart provides for me the ultimate humility of creativity.   It demonstrates we, as a race, are capable of reaches simply beyond our own understanding. Make no doubt, this applies in philosophy, in physics, in mathematics, in psychology, and in almost anything of meritorious effort.    I am diminished by but enhanced by Mozart. 

Don't get me started on Bach or Beethoven, both compositional geniuses beyond my comprehension.
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  1. BPWFebruary 28, 2013 at 7:57 AM

    For further thought - consider then that God created them all.

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