K. 8, Violin Sonata in B-flat
This piece declares a gamut of emotions similar to many other
three-movement Mozart works. A laughing
first movement, a crying second, and a reminiscing third. Was this a formula that Mozart learned at an
early age? Even today, in popular music,
how many musicians are told their CD’s have to have a range from feel-good to
sob-story. Moreover, did young Mozart
have the emotion insight enabling him a scribe such feeling into music? (He likely had the experiences.) Or, was he writing the formula? As much as I think I hate formulaic expression, there are reasons we gravitate
toward the familiar. And, in my
arrogance, who am I to say that people expressing themselves via a formula,
lack emotional depth? True genius is not always one that radically conjures a
new-fangled format. Sometimes, genius
grows from the one that subtly tweaks the format simply suggesting change.
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