“Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.”

— Joseph Goebbels

Mozart brauchte kein Programm für seine Musik. Er musizierte und sang mit der göttlichen Leichtigkeit eines Kindes.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

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