I had been thinking to myself recently that I do not listen to Mozart as much as I did in my youth. But tonight I was feeling very blue, and I wanted to listen to someone who knew just what I felt and could talk to me about it. There was really no question about which composer would fill the bill: I put on the g-minor quintet and found consolation in listening to someone who had put all my feelings into music. Sometimes that's what I want from music: a conversation with someone who is a kindred spirit, who has felt what I feel and can, in some sense, "talk to me about it." Do other people listen to music for this purpose? What composer does for you in the way Mozart does for me? Nick [log in to unmask]