Mozart#
Summary#
Mozart represents the culmination and final expression of a great European taste that had existed for centuries. Nietzsche celebrates his rococo sensibility, tender enthusiasm, childish delight, courtesy of heart, and belief in the South as still capable of speaking to something within us. Unlike Beethoven, who was merely an intermediate event between a dying old soul and an emerging future, Mozart embodied a unified European cultural moment that subsequent German romanticism would fail to maintain.