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Mörike Eduard (1804-1875) was a German Romantic poet, some of whose most beautiful poems reached a sublime level on the virtue of the music composed for them in the second half of the nineteenth century by the great lieder composer Hugo Wolf.
Precisely his most beautiful and memorable book revolves around music, a novel titled Mozart on the Road to Prague that explains the day in the life of the great Austrian composer. The book, published in 1856 on the centenary of the birth of the musician is not only one of the first attempts to draw a portrait of the character of Mozart but probably one of the most beautiful books ever, inspired by one of the most fascinating characters in the western history
In the final pages Eugenie, the young bride, reveals a tragic thought: A view of Mozart, and with him a number of people whose talent makes them burn with scorching heat and desire which lasts to this day: “Suddenly it became so true, terribly true, that the man was being eaten quickly and irrevocably by his own fire and that he could not be more than a fleeting appearance on this earth, for the fire could not support the excess he emanates”
Despite the masterful musical mirror and voices of its composition, the plot of the novel is not complicated: Mozart and his wife Constance stop a moment to rest during their trip to Prague, where the composer is going to direct his opera Don Giovanni. While strolling through the garden of a palace, in an episode that somehow serves as a precedent to Proust´s Madeleine and the prodigious effects of this episode of involuntary memory, Mozart, being prisoner of the invincible power of attraction of some oranges he sees in the palace garden, picks one hanging from a tree and inadvertently spoils a gift for the engagement party to be held that day at the palace. After being stopped by the gardener, the lords of the house recognize him and along with Costance are invited to the party, where he will play for the first time excerpts from Don Giovanni. The next day, he resumed his way to Prague.
Listening to Mozart´s music is charged full of awareness of the architectural character of music and its amazing ability to create space for the imagination to step through and dwell so it relates to memory. Perhaps that is why it is such a strange feeling you get when you visit the house in Vienna where he lived
http://www.mozarthausvienna.at/
Paul Oilzum
You may want to visit this historical building when you rent apartments in Vienna It is somehow impossible to escape the feeling that our footsteps echo inside a music box that has been in a palace during a trip to remember the celebration of life.
Translated by: Marc
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