“Mozart’s Requiem makes you feel the eternity. Your worries and concerns disappear and you are full of the unconscious apprehension of the divine mystery. Where do I come from? Why do I exist? What am I?
What are we when we come to this world and what awaits us at the end?… You return to the beginning, to your memory, to hard and happy days.
I have never been so sincere, so spiritually naked as in Mozart’s Requiem. It is my past, present and future, whether you accept it or reject it. This is my memory which brings an unprotected youth into the world, resurrects the ordeals of maturity, the wisdom and weakness of old age. How much viciousness, defamation, jealousy and violence my memory holds, how many never-fading touches of happiness, love… This is all inside me, inside each of us.
An everlasting natural process, the development which makes its existence possible. The creativity was the true meaning, the essence of Mozart's personality: not a dirge, but an abysmal feeling of suffering, hope and love for the humanity". |
