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Music
Haggin, B. H. | May 6, 1939 issue

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The article focuses on the works of the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart. According to the author Mozart intended his G minor Symphony as a work of art to be experienced, and its value is not in what it can teach, but in the experience which it affords as a work of art. To know the relation of Mozart's style to the style of an eighteenth-century rococo interior is to know only what Mozart had in common with a hundred mediocre contemporaries, not what is uniquely his. From the Mozart correspondence one gets an authentic picture of the man, his career, the conditions under which he functioned as an artist; and in this as in other instances the process of learning truth is at the same time one of discovering error.

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MUSIC; MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791; SYMPHONIES; COMPOSITION (Music); LETTERS; INSTRUMENTAL music
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