Saturday, 31 January 2026
Majestic Mozart
Well, it is still Mozart Week, so I am sharing more of his music. And a statue of Mozart himself: the one you can find in Vienna. It is often surrrounded by tourists, who just take pictures of it because, well, Mozart is a huge part of Vienna and Austria, maybe its most famous composers. And I was there as a pilgrim, a proper worshipper in fact. That said, like many other portraits and monuments to the man, I find this one strange at many levels. He
looks atypically regal and Greco-Roman godly here. Maybe a tad Messianic
too. As much as I'm a sucker for the monuments paying homage to him, I
can't help but find them incomplete. There's a lot of Amadeus in this
statue, but very little of Wolfgang, even less of Wolferl. There's no mischief. Anyway, this post would not be complete without a bit of music, here an aria from from Le Nozze di Figaro. Sung by Rod Gilfry. Tell me what you think of the music and the statue.
Labels:
Austria,
Autriche,
fête,
Le mariage de Figaro,
Le Nozze di Figaro,
Mozart,
music,
musique,
opéra,
Rod Gilfry,
Vienna,
Vienne
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