Mozart picks out dabs of sonic hue
That coruscate across these most human of scores;
Haydn has hundredfold wit gushing through,
Gets the band dancing to his new-found laws.
Mendelssohn draws gossamers and donkeys in sound,
Limns watercolours of Europe’s south and west;
Schumann is romantic – solid, but not hide-bound,
Even thinking to add a guitar, as a test.
Mahler chromatics up worlds of anguish and love,
Vaunting his agony-ecstasy in every note;
Bruckner consecrates cathedrals to the heavens above
– The greatest symphonies Wagner never wrote.
This is classical music’s timeless pairing:
Contrasts coming together, united in sharing.
That coruscate across these most human of scores;
Haydn has hundredfold wit gushing through,
Gets the band dancing to his new-found laws.
Mendelssohn draws gossamers and donkeys in sound,
Limns watercolours of Europe’s south and west;
Schumann is romantic – solid, but not hide-bound,
Even thinking to add a guitar, as a test.
Mahler chromatics up worlds of anguish and love,
Vaunting his agony-ecstasy in every note;
Bruckner consecrates cathedrals to the heavens above
– The greatest symphonies Wagner never wrote.
This is classical music’s timeless pairing:
Contrasts coming together, united in sharing.
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