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Show Mozart's Music. A recent biographer says of Mozart that the most wonderful fact nbout him was thnt he directed his art toward to-ward success without any sacrifice o( himself, and his music was always written with regard to its effect upon the public. Somehow it does not lose by this, and it says exactly what h wishes it to say. In this he was helped by his delicate perceptions, his shrewdness and his sense of irony. He despised his audience, hut he held him. self in great esteem. He made no con cession that he need blush for; he deceived de-ceived the public, but he guided it ns well. He gave the people the Ulusior that they understood his Idea, while as a matter of fact, the applause thai greeted his work was excited only b passages which were solely composer for applause. |