Mozart as Endymion and Adonais A thing of beauty is a joy forever.... A third and final tribute to Mozart on December 5, 2014 As December 5, Mozarts last day, turns into December 6th, and we complete our vigils, blow out our candles and offer our encomia, I thought of both Keats poem Endymion, and Shelleys panegyric to Keats in his Adonais, as perfect poetic metaphors to Mozart and his genius. In Endymion, Keats writes that: A thing of beauty is a joy forever, Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams...... Certainly these words can also perfectly apply to any of many of Mozarts works, whose loveliness ever increases as we hear them, and as they inform our days, our lives? And what of Shelley, who in Adonais (note the agglomeration of Adonis and Adonai ) asks, Who mourns for Adonais? Could this not also refer to those who mourn Mozarts passing? Shelley goes on to remind us that he is not dead, he has awakened from the dream of life. and goes on with the universal thought that: The One remains, the many change and pass; Heavens light forever shines, Earths shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity. Could not these lines also describe Mozarts humanity and legacy, a genius who has never died, whose Art remains, whose music soars into the Empyrean, indeed it emanates from the Empyrean, from the center of the Universe, as the Music of the Spheres, the foundational hum and rhythm of the origins of consciousness, of all that is good and beautiful and endearing and meaningful to us all. Could this not all be true? Yes, it can, every time you listen, play, or sing Mozart, it can. Sic transit gloria mundi https://youtube/watch?v=VgoBDAZX4gI
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 04:29:09 +0000
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