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Choreographer Twyla Tharp, who directed the opera and dance scenes for the
film Amadeus, has this to say about the film’s portrait of Mozart:
There are no ‘natural’ geniuses… No-one worked harder than
Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of
all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose…
As Mozart himself wrote to a friend, “People err who think my art comes easily to me. I
assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as
I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through
many times.
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