Uploaded December 2007 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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The world widest known ouverture.
Mozarts marriage was a happy one, and he now was - with help from his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte - favoured by emperor Joseph II, and then The marriage of Figaro, which many has called an advance of the french revolution, was written in six weeks! In this his happy period one masterpiece after another came from Mozarts hand with an astonishing speed.

Carl Vendler