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I know I am jumping ahead quite a bit to get to Mozart after Bach, perhaps I will go back and catch the several geniuses between at a later date.
This is probably Mozart's first Minuet. Since he composed his first Symphony at the age of 8 it is not impossible that it was composed when he was 6.
How can that be? My tentative conclusion is that music is actually floating around somewhere in the ether and when a young brain is primed and open for it, that brain catches it. Considering that once it is caught and written down and performed it moves a great deal of people this doesn't seem so far fetched. Why then should some composers' work move people more than others? Perhaps the very best composers have a superior catching system?
What do you think?
Here is a link to the sheet music and if you click on"listen" you can hear the music.
I think the bottom part is so beautiful that it could easily stand alone.
This is probably Mozart's first Minuet. Since he composed his first Symphony at the age of 8 it is not impossible that it was composed when he was 6.
How can that be? My tentative conclusion is that music is actually floating around somewhere in the ether and when a young brain is primed and open for it, that brain catches it. Considering that once it is caught and written down and performed it moves a great deal of people this doesn't seem so far fetched. Why then should some composers' work move people more than others? Perhaps the very best composers have a superior catching system?
What do you think?
Here is a link to the sheet music and if you click on"listen" you can hear the music.
I think the bottom part is so beautiful that it could easily stand alone.
Top part of Minuet
Bottom part of Minuet
2 parts together
