For me, Music is about emotion: When the music is sensed by my ears, do I feel sad? Do I feel excited? Do I feel like getting up and dancing?
Mozart was, of course, a master at many things. Listen to how he presents sadness: In the opera Marriage of Figaro, the soprano by the name of Barbarina loses something she was asked to give to another character. Barbarina is the gardener’s daughter, but I just want the music…
Listen now how Mozart invokes the sounds that communicates Barbarina’s sorrow and her search:
