Composers

This year of 2006 has been a very busy and monumental year for musicians. With different festivals and special concerts, concerning Birthdays! I think everybody knows or at least heard that this past month in January on the 27, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart turned 250 years old. Today Mozarts' music is more popular than it has ever been. Mozarts' music was never taken seriously and if it was, never admitted publicly. Clara Schumann, Bob's wife, said only 100 years later that people were tired and bored with Mozarts' simple little tunes. That attitude is still held but is growing weaker and weaker as the years go by. Mozart was always thought to be background music at high-brow champagne party. But if only people had a little music in them and would stop and listen to the the way Mozart develops a theme, they would recognize the pure genius of the composer. We today owe a lot to Mozart for what he did for music, for without his revolutionary and independent thoughts we would not have our symphony structure that we have today. So go and listen to some Mozart and enjoy him in a new light.