What difference does it make? God spoke through Mozart and that’s all I need to know.
And if one hasn’t heard Enzio Pinza in The Marriage of Figaro, one probably doesn’t know what I’m talking about.
God spoke through Mozart and gave him melodies straight from heaven. That he doesn’t meet YOUR standards is irrelevant to me or to the world, frankly. Go back in your hole.
I was a music major in my undergraduate years, and in my Senior year in choir (required course), we sang his Requiem. We performed at the Kennedy Center. Not being a voice major (BA, Musicology), I was relegated to the back, with the bass singers.
Regardless, that was one of the most electrifying experiences of my life! I still remember singing the Dies Ire! The basses would come in, mildly at first:
Quantus tremor est futurus (What dread there will be)
And the women would respond...
Dies irae, dies illa (Day of wrath, that day)
Again, we would sing, a little louder:
Quantus tremor est futurus...
And this would go back and forth, growing in crescendo, until we came out in full blast!
Quando judex est venturus! (When the Judge shall come!)
Cuncta stricte discussurus! (To judge all things!)
THAT was muscular music! I still get chills thinking of our performance almost 40 years ago.
“And if one hasn’t heard Enzio Pinza in The Marriage of Figaro, one probably doesn’t know what I’m talking about.”
No, that’s fine, you’re right. Mozart was a young, urban guy. Also a super genius.
And all that aside, not every guy has to be super macho, not every gal has to be Sophia Loren.
Let’s not sexualize/politicize everything. That is how we get all this gender bending crap.
“And if one hasn’t heard Enzio Pinza in The Marriage of Figaro, one probably doesn’t know what I’m talking about.”
Verdi is more passionate in every opera than Mozart was in his most passionate.
And musically, far more effective.
I can understand women liking Mozart...he wrote to/for them. Essentially he was one himself.
Mozart utterly delights me.