I wonder what the list members think about Mozart's artistry (this is, I know, a very vague term but I suspect we all know its meaning). With Beethoven and Wagner, to take two obvious examples, one feels that there was a design there and a sense of destiny, best phrased, perhaps, by Auden when he told his tutor at the age of 19 that he intended to be a "great poet". With Mozart, one often suspects that the cascade-like, explosive nature of his gift prevented him from stepping back and seeing what it was that he had been doing. Any comments? Jacek Niecko Washington DC