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The Endoscopic Symphony No 40 by MurraSaca There are many gastrointestinal endoscopic video clips with special effects and the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No 40, Mozart composed his final three symphonies during the summer of 1788. His entries in the thematic catalog he maintained suggest that all were written during the space of about two months. Much critical discussion has been devoted to the reasons for their composition, for it appeared that Mozart had no specific occasion in mind for their performance. The romantic notion that he composed them without practical purpose is now widely disregarded as being out of character with Mozart's known compositional procedures, December 2006 -- It seems unthinkable to leave this year, the 250th anniversary of his birth, without a salute to the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Although barely appreciated in his own time, since his demise we've come to regard Mozart in terms of religious awe.
While the brilliance and perfection of his operas, concerti, chamber music, serenades and sonatas are widely hailed for their ideal integration of form and feeling, perhaps the most stunning distillation of his astounding genius arose in his last three symphonies, written in a miraculous blaze during the summer of 1788 (along with at least a half-dozen other works). They form an extraordinary trio -- # 41 in C-Major presents a dazzling summation of Mozart's past, # 39 in E-flat Major encapsulates the art of his present, and # 40 in g-minor vaults into the future and the music of our own time.Like Mozart's final work, the Requiem, the inspiration and genesis of his last symphonies is shrouded in mystery. Although he duly entered them in the thematic catalog in which he recorded the opening of each completed composition, Mozart never once mentions any of them in his copious correspondence, which fosters our understanding of nearly all his other major compositions. Nor have historians found any evidence of a commission (for which nearly all his other work was written to order), nor even an indication of a concert for which they might have been intended.

Scholars still can only speculate why they were written. Three principal theories have emerged. Possibly, they were intended for a series of subscription concerts in June and July 1788 that never materialized or were cancelled for insufficient interest (as Mozart's career was then in a slump from which it would only recover posthumously). Or, Mozart may have planned to present them during a trip to England (as Haydn would do in 1791) where German composers, led by Handel, had already met with great artistic (and, for Mozart, much-needed financial) success. Or, he might have hoped to publish them as a single opus, which at the time often consisted of three complementary works in the same genre.

But perhaps the most compelling explanation is held by Martin Bookspan, among others, who credits these works to an inner compulsion to create - a matter of personal expression without regard to the demands of patrons or public. That motivation, in turn, goes far to explain their extraordinary scope and striking ingenuity, which surely would have been lost on audiences of the time, and especially during only a single hearing at a typical concert. Abstract creativity also accounts for their internal unity and continuity, since symphonies at the time routinely were split in half to open and close a concert, sandwiching two hours of intervening arias, concerti and even improvisations.

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