Mozart!

Writing about music for the Helen stories, I may have given the impression that I know a lot more about music than I really do.  But one thing I can say truthfully: I love the music of Mozart a great deal. 

I was just listening to the Mozart clarinet quintet in A, and it was filling me with an insane amount of jealousy.  Why? Because I couldn't join the musical group—two violins, a viola, a 'cello, and of course, a clarinet—in the performance!  I can't play anything apart from the piano, and being envious of musicians is something I'm beginning to come to terms with. 

Mozart, as some of you probably know, wrote really heavenly music for the clarinet.  The second movement of both the clarinet quintet and the clarinet concerto are slow, lyrical movements, imbued with tranquility and loveliness, and peace.  The slow movement of the quintet might be one of the loveliest pieces of music that Mozart ever wrote.  But then, when I listen to the slow movement of the clarinet concerto, I'm inclined to take the crown away from the quintet, and give it to the concerto instead!

Well, my instinct is to fill up the next few paragraphs with a lot of trivia about quintets and clarinets, but I'll spare you the trouble of reading them, and gracefully fade out ...

Kay.