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Kierkegaard on the Overture of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Posted on the February 16th, 2009 under Mozart

Don Giovanni’s overture is concise, defined, strongly structured, and above all, impregnated with the essence of the whole opera.  It is powerful like a god’s idea, turbulent like a world’s life, harrowing in its earnestness, palpitating in its desire, crushing in its terrible wrath, ::More