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[09:37, 02/02/2026] Urs-Li: this does not work with chatGPT; similar to Kreuzersonate by Tolstoi i guess;
[09:37, 02/02/2026] Urs-Li: I hear what you’re doing here. Let me try to honor your wish for a short answer on Mozart, without getting lost in the bigger (very charged) terrain you’re circling.
Short answer on Mozart (as I understand your point)
Mozart doesn’t lay foundations the way Bach does, and he doesn’t wrestle history the way Beethoven does. He speaks from inside a world where the groundwork is already there. Bach made the grammar; Mozart speaks fluently, playfully, and painfully with it.
What matters is this:
Mozart’s music carries Unschuld — not na?veté, but moral and emotional clarity. A kind of Herzensunschuld: the ability to express suffering, injustice, and longing without hardening. That’s why it can keep someone going even in extreme situations. It doesn’t argue. It r…
[09:42, 02/02/2026] Urs-Li: I would argue that we are not yet ready for Mozart — and the same goes for Beethoven — because of Bach. Mozart and Beethoven were very familiar with Bach. Mozart, I believe, started out strongly influenced by Johann Christian Bach, so they didn’t need to lay that groundwork themselves.
That’s also why Beethoven was able to write works like the cello sonatas. This is something Tolstoy struggles with philosophically in relation to the Kreutzer Sonata: he doesn’t really get the music behind it. But that would be too much of a detour — I just wanted to give a short answer on Mozart.
For me, Mozart directly helped. This connects to the Geduldsarie, to Unschuld and Herzensunschuld. There’s this idea that God will avenge this innocence — it’s about Jesus there, but also more generally. And I don’t think it’s the right mindset to simply give up on this idea of revenge. That’s actually one of my problems with the Bible: it’s not direct enough for me. This isn’t a direct quote from the Bible. It’s all about forgiveness, but that’s not how it works for me. This sense of revenge — or justice — is what keeps the movement going.
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So for me, this is an example of how God used Mozart to keep me going.
One concrete situation was when I was in the mental hospital, waiting — I was there for just one day, at the end of 2023, this kind of “homeopathic FU.” At the same time, I was discussing the Lynx operation, where the police even broke a rib. I use that as an example, because the rest was much worse. Even the transport to the mental hospital was worse for me.
While I was there, “Komm, lieber Mai, und mache die B?ume wieder grün” came to mind. That’s how I remember how playful Mozart was. This image of things becoming green again. I remember an interview by M?nchmeier — M?nchmayer is probably one of the best violists, though that’s almost too much to go into here.
For me, especially with Tourette’s — and before Brüche sind erlaubt, the author’s earlier book on Tourette — Mozart is important. Mozart had Tourette’s as well, and in that regard, not much has really changed over time.
My uncle, for example — he’s Kirchenratspr?sident, not one of the “evil uncles” — thinks this kind of thing will never be relevant for him, not even indirectly. That’s a form of discrimination. That’s exactly this oligarch culture: if you don’t know something, you don’t want to know about it. It’s the same inability to put yourself in the shoes of Jesus in the Matth?us-Passion. That’s the most important meditation. Hopefully you’ll never end up on the cross — but if you can’t imagine it at all, you miss the point.
That’s why he’s not evil, unlike my godfather, but psychologically underdeveloped. He doesn’t get it. Mozart was not psychologically underdeveloped — that’s what people don’t understand.
Mozart died too young, of course, but when you look at the childhood he had, including Tourette’s, his operas become a way of expressing himself. That’s what they are.
There was also this YouTuber / TikToker who died recently — but it’s not the same thing. I guess people don’t get that.
It’s similar with Money Matter: if you know that the son is deaf — an Augenmensch — you get a completely different perspective on the texts. He wrote them for his son, of course.
And the problem is that for many people — like my mother — when they recently performed Beethoven’s Ninth, Freude, sch?ner G?tterfunken, she doesn’t get that there is a message. Without a message, it’s not meaningful art. That’s what people forget.
There is a message behind Mozart, but it’s not philosophically deep in the same way. It works differently. Beethoven also has a completely different goal.
What happened then reminded me of Warcraft 3 — the 693 hell points of the Tauren Chieftain, which I discussed in earlier chapters. I don’t want to repeat that every time; this is just a summary.
That moment was like a Tourette episode — or at least that’s the thought attached to it. This screenshot: I don’t really know. It felt like a Tourette attack. Luckily, that stopped. I didn’t have many episodes like that. I had voices at times, and they stopped when I acted on them. Here, it’s mostly just meant as a reminder — for others.
[09:43, 02/02/2026] Urs-Li: instead of B?ume die Rosen wieder grün; not money matters Mani Matter;
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Mani Matter was like me John Lord and basically all the greatest composers except maybe Tschajkovski a BACH fanatic; D?lleBACH Kari Schimpf und Spot... they would not even figure this out on theyr own
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GG @charon, you just advanced to level 18!