136 Mozart: A Little Night Music, Divertimenti

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“Get yourself vaccinated in time! The rococo red Mozart flood is looming on the horizon. In jubilee year it will bring us a plague of catchy tunes, also known as earworms, which you are advised to immunise yourself against to save your ear passages from clogging up. Particular risk of infection is expected from Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik K 525 […..]It is as if the veins of a well-preserved mummy long frozen in glacier ice were to be refilled with living blood and spirits and return to life from eternal cryofication. At one point Mozart jumps so cheekily from G major to E flat major that one cannot help laughing. The old surprises can still spring themselves on us as if they were new. This last movement might be famous but it is too nimble to whistle along to and too lively to be an “earworm”. So it is the best immunisation, and the treatment can, by the way, be applied to the surround sound listener via five speakers.” Die Zeit, Volker Hagedorn

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