As the Classical style reaches its culminationand Enlightenment values penetrate allaspects of cultural and political life, Mozart’smusic exemplifies a period in which serenity,rationality, and a sense of proportion andsymmetry take centre stage. Using the mostsimple and direct means, this extraordinarymusician seems to capture the whole rangeof human emotion.

This course led by Roy Stratford will explore the enormous diversity of his output and examine the sometimes subversive means that he used to express his musical ideas. As HC Robbins Landon wrote, ‘the Mozartian Legacy, in brief, is as good an excuse for mankind’s existence as we shall ever encounter and is perhaps, after all, a still small hope for our ultimate survival’.