The Only Use of
Mozart
in
Brave New World
- …against this instrumental background, a much more than human voice began to warble; now throaty, now from the head, now hollow as a flute, now charged with yearning harmonics, it effortlessly passed from Gaspard's Forster's low record on the very frontiers of musical tone to a trilled bat-note high above the highest C to which (in 1770, at the Ducal opera of Parma, and to the astonishment of Mozart) Lucrezia Ajugari, alone of all the singers in history, once piercingly gave utterance.†
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Definition:
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(Mozart as in: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy; widely considered to be one of the masters of the classical style (1756-1791)