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Article: Mozart at the ballet. (adapting Mozart's music for ballet)
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- April 16, 1990
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MOZART AT THE BALLET
"IT IS interesting," observed George Balanchine in his Complete Stories of the Great Ballets, "that although Mozart wrote no music for ballet, of all composers his music is most adaptable for ballet, of all composers his music is the most danceable." It is also interesting that although Balanchine reserved such high praise for Mozart, the music inspired merely a handful of the choreographer's 425 works. This despite the oft-remarked artistic traits shared by the two men: clarity, precocity, facility, a love of puns, and a deeper love of order. Evidently, no matter how great the affinities and how "danceable" the music, choreographing Mozart is ...