No less a figure than Franz Joseph Haydn had paved the way by showing the endless possibilities of the mature classical style. One of the greatest prodigies in music history, Mozart had the good fortune to be born in 1756 at a time when tonality and harmony in western music had evolved to a level of purity and sophistication that makes the 18th century the envy of more than one great composer born later. His music moves with an unparalleled grace and unveils its truths with a suppleness and subtlety only exceeded by Nature herself.

Drama is the essence of Mozart and his characters express a universality of emotion akin to the gods of classic mythology. The piano of his concertos is the protagonist be it in either an opera buffa or seria, the slow movements of his string quartets are love arias and duets, and the last movements of his piano sonatas are the denouements of high comedies.

With Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, almost all is a sublime opera. We might say that the Lieder informs most of Schubert and that every Tchaikovsky symphony is ripe with ballet.

Divertimento in b flat major? k.anh 229