Mozart, The Music, The Myth, The Legend, w/ Jan Swafford
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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How Did He Write the Branchiest of His Letters to His Sister or His Cousin?
Every one he every person he wrote to, he kind of took on a different personality with them. There was a certain point where his letters to dad could be very high spirited and funny, and then dad said, i don't care about your jokes. Mozart was genuinely interested in other people. Ah, he was genuinely involved with life in every dimension and devouring it. But that beethoven didn't do that. He just talked bout youm maybe beethoven understood humanity, not humans, but that's a good way to put it. And o yo somthing, i his emotions which were universal emotions, right?
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