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    Mozart's Divertimento: A Musical Joke

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    Mozart: 15 facts about the great composer

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    13. Mozart's Divertimento: A Musical Joke

    Mozart's A Musical Joke also known as Divertimento for two horns and string quartet, is thought to have been written to be intentionally as a funny piece, clumsy, mechanical and over-repetitive.

    1. Image 1: A Transverse Flute
    2. Image 2: Mozart's Family Portrait: Leopold Mozart, his wife, Maria Anna, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart playing the piano
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    4. Image 4: A still from The King's Speech
    5. Image 5: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart most famous portrait
    6. Image 6: Allegri
    7. Image 7: The Shawshank Redemption still
    8. Image 8: A Church Bell
    9. Image 9: An image of the planet Jupiter
    10. Image 10: Image of a catalogue 15 images

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    10 most beautiful and calming pieces of classical music for babies

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    This is how Acqua’s ‘Barbie Girl’ might have sounded if it had been written by Mozart.

    Here’s how ‘Barbie Girl’ might have sounded, if it had been written by Mozart

    Lizzo plays Mozart on the 2023 Glastonbury Festival

    Lizzo just played Mozart on the Glastonbury stage, and it was an iconic moment

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    Singer casually gives astonishing karaoke performance of Mozart’s fiendish ‘Queen of the Night’ aria

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    The 15 most famous tunes in classical music

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    A young Marin Alsop, Sir Simon Rattle, and Seiji Ozawa conduct their respective orchestras.

    The 25 greatest conductors of all time

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    Hildegard von Bingen, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Edward Elgar among the greatest composers in classical music history.

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    Who was Luciano Pavarotti? Facts about the legendary Italian tenor

    Who was Luciano Pavarotti? How this Italian tenor became the world’s most famous opera star

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    10 most beautiful and moving pieces of classical music

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