On the page it looked nothing.The beginning simple..Almost comical.Just a pulse.Bassoons and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox.But then high above it, an oboe Just a single note hanging there unwavering. Until a clarinet took over and sweetened it to a phrase of such a delight. This was no composition by a performing monkey. This was a music I have never heard before. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had me trembling. It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God. “DIRECTOR’S CUT” But why? Why would God choose an obscene child to be his instrument? It was not to be believed. This pidce had to be an accident! It had to be… It better be.
In the 1984 film Amadeus, F. Murray Abraham, in his Academy Award-winning performance as composer Antonio Salieri, reminiscing and breaking down to Father Vogel about the immature Wolfgang Mozart’s sublime Serenade No.10 for Winds: