Had Mozart (or for that matter Beethoven) been living today, I doubt very much whether he would have given us that wonderful flood of great music that he did. A genius like him would very soon have been seduced financially either by Hollywood to write film-music or by television to show off before millions or by the stage to write piffling musical comedies. Thas has happened to virtually every promising musical talent since Stravinsky, with the possible exception of Britten. For this reason, I donÕt believe the world is ever going to see the likes of Bach or Mozart or Beethoven or Schubert or Brahms or Sibelius again, not of course that they happen very often anyway. We must be thankful for what weÕve got.
Ñ Roald Dahl
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