Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — Mozart’s Music. [ARTICLE]

Mozart’s Music.

A recent biographer says of Mozart that the most wonderful fact' about him was that he directed his art toward success without any sacrifice of himself, and his music was always written with regard to its effect upon the public. Somehow It does not lose by this, and it says exactly what he wishes it to say. In this he was helped by his delicate perceptions, his shrewdness and his sens# of irony. He despised his audience, but he held himself in great esteem. He made no concession that he need blush'for; h,e deceived the public, but he guided it as well. He gave the people the illusion that they understood his idea, while, as a matter of fact, the applause that greeted his work was excited only by passages which were solely composed for applause.