Jess Gillam with... Ellie Consta
This Classical Life
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I Love Lily Voulange
Mozart had been approached by somebody to write a piece but he was not allowed to know who it was for. As he was writing it sadly he died. His wife needed the composition to be finished so that she could receive the other half of the payment because she was struggling for money. She tried to find composers secretly so that they thought that Mozart had written it. And then she pretended that he had finished it and told an assistant as he was dying. I think this sense of impending doom and death and the end. He missed life as well, like the strength of the voice of the orchestra is overwhelming. It is. Oh, Mozart. Good choice. So this
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