"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

06 December 2014

Tremendous.

Lange, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1782


Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart died on this date in 1791.

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

Richard Wagner

John Eliot Gardiner leads Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists featuring Barbara Bonney, soprano, Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor, Alastair Miles, bass, in Mozart's Requiem Mass in D minor, K. 626 ...


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