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Mozart The Freemason - The Masonic Influence On His Musical Genius (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed)
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Mozart The Freemason - The Masonic Influence On His Musical Genius (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed)
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HISTORY / FREEMASONRY Thanks to documents discovered nearly two
hundred years after his death, we now have a fuller picture of the
profound influence that Freemasonry had on the life and work of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Musicologist Jacques Henry shows that the
Masonic influence on Mozart's work goes far beyond pieces such as
The Magic Flute that were overtly Masonic or fulfilled a ritual
purpose for the composer. For those initiated, many of Mozart's
other compositions express the same Masonic ideals no less clearly.
His works actually provide a complete musical lexicon of Masonic
symbols inspired by the principles of the craft and the spirit of
the Masonic quest. Mozart constructed his Masonic compositions by
creating auditory correspondences to the symbols present in the
rituals, choosing keys and tempos that transpose their content into
harmony. His understanding of the use of symbol allowed him to
create music that would lead the listener into a harmony that
transcended earthly existence.A number of musicologists believe
that the place of the Masonic spiritual vision in Mozart's work is
comparable to that held by Lutheran Christianity in the work of
Johann Sebastian Bach. Mozart wed his deep understanding of music
to the esoteric wisdom he gained as a Freemason to show that when
we lose ourselves in the expression of the purest harmony, it is
the same as the symbol being lost in what it symbolizes. Jacques
Henry provides a rigorous and original analysis of Mozart's works
that reveals their inner meaning as shaped by the composer's
profound embrace of the spiritual principles of Freemasonry.Jacques
Henry is artistic director of the annual Mozart festival in the
Drome region ofFrance and an expert on the symbolism in Mozart's
work. He lives in France.
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