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7/4/2025, 10:55:17 PM
>During his studies with Weinlig he had tried to discover the secret of Mozart's fluency and lightness in solving difficult technical problems. In particular he tried to emulate the fugal finale of the great C major Symphony, 'magnificent, never surpassed', as he called it years later, and at eighteen he wrote a fugato as the finale of his C major Concert Overture, 'the very best that I could do, as I thought at the time, in honour of my new examplar'. In the last years of his life he liked to call himself the 'last Mozartian'. He played Brünnhilde's E major passage from the last act of Die Walküre, 'Der diese Liebe mir ins Herz gelegt', and lamented the general failure to appreciate his sense of beauty which, he believed, made him 'Mozart's successor'.
6/16/2025, 3:15:34 PM
Why is liberalism so artistically sterile? Both the radical left and the radical right have made massive contributions to art and literature but one would be hard-pressed to name even one liberal writer of note. In my experience liberals mostly consume radical left-wing art while still maintaining that the society which leftists envision is untenable and staying true to their milquetoast normie worldview
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