27/10/2013

Voice of God


Salieri describing the music of Mozart

Extraordinary! On the page it looked, nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. 

Just a pulse - bassoons, basset horns - like a rusty squeezebox. 

And then, suddenly - high above it - an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering.

And till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! 

This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I'd never heard. 

Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had me trembling. 

It seemed to me that I was hearing a voice of God.


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