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Salieri on Mozart’s music.
Serenade No. 10 In B Flat: III. Adagio
This is the piece that Salieri describes in that scene.
It might be my favorite movement in all of Mozart’s music. But that’s like picking my favorite bourbon.
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On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse - bassoons and basset horns - like a rusty squeezebox.
And then, suddenly - high above it - an oboe. A single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took it 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 seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.
THIS MOVIE.
The whole of Serenade No. 10.
