![]() Music for the pope was much more than mere entertainment. ![]() The joy that Mozart gives us, and I feel this anew in every encounter with him, is not due to the omission of a part of reality it is an expression of a higher perception of the whole, something I can only call inspiration out of which his compositions seem to flow naturally. Each tone is correct and could not be different. Mozart is pure inspiration-or at least I feel it so. I have to say that something like this happens to me still when I listen to Mozart. And from the choir sounded music that could only come from heaven music in which was revealed to us the jubilation of the angels over the beauty of God. In the front, in the sanctuary, columns of incense had formed in which the sunlight was broken at the altar the sacred action took place of which we knew that heaven opened for us. When in our home parish of Traunstein on feast days a Mass by Mozart resounded, for me, a little country boy, it seemed as if heaven stood open. Consider what Pope Benedict himself contributed to a book collecting fifty-eight testimonies for the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth in 2006: That is because it is well known that Mozart is the pope’s favorite composer. In fact, there have been few cultural events that Benedict XVI attended as pope in which a piece of Mozart has not been performed. While it is true that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in the Austrian city of Salzburg in 1756, that is not why his music was played for the pope. Austria’s president honored Pope Benedict XVI on the final day of his visit to the “Alp Republic” on Septemwith Mozart music in the Vienna Concert House.
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