Mozart piano concerto 20 analysis

Girdlestone attributes this inexhaustible spring of delight, as well as substantial emotional complexity, to Mozart's turning to the piano concerto as the primary vehicle through which he found afresh the radiance of his inner life, even while being overworked and underappreciated.

Indeed, Richard Westerberg asserts that the key to Mozart's humanity, as reflected in his music, is that every happy musical idea contains sadness and all the sad ones bring a measure of hope. It is this overriding humanity that has resonated in seasoned musicians and novices alike through the ages (that is, at least to those sensitive enough to perceive and respond to the message – as Andr� Gide once observed, Mozart speaks in whispers, whereas the public tends to hear only shouts.) Thus, Schubert saw Mozart as giving us a picture of a better world, and H.

C. Robbins Landon finds in Mozart nothing less than "an excuse for mankind's existence and a small hope for our ultimate survival."

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