Mozart's Music Notes

"I can not write poetically; I am no poet. I can not divide and subdivide my phrases so as to produce light and shade...But I can do it with tones; I am a musician."

After I graduated from college, I taught first grade at an international school in Munich. When friends and family visited, I’d take them on the short train ride to Saltzburg—the birth place of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). So it came to be that I visited the great composer’s birth-house (Geburtshaus) frequently. And every time I visited, I found…