[LAU] OT: musicmadewithlinux: Mozart Symphony #40

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:01:29AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> also he has composed stuff as ...
>
> "Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja,
> Stets lustig, heißa hoppsassa!
> Ich Vogelfänger bin bekannt
> Bei Alt und Jung im ganzen Land."

Lyrics by Schikaneder, not Mozart. And they are not any more or
less stupid than for example:

  Hey joe, where you goin' with that gun of your hand
  Hey joe, i said where you goin' with that gun in your hand, oh
  I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady
  You know i caught her messin' 'round with another man

by Jimi Hendrix. In both cases, they serve to paint a quick 
picture of a character, in Mozart's case quite a frivolous one,
in Hendrix' case something more dark.

If you would be capable of looking a bit deeper than the surface,
you'd discover that Mozart's 'Magic Flute' is not just bourgeois
divertissement but quite an eleborate exploration of the ambiguity
of good vs. evil, of right vs. wrong. 

Ciao,

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FA

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