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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Là Ci Darem La Mano Duettino from Don Giovanni

In this issue, we examine yet another stunning work from the musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Mozart’s brilliance and productivity are of course well documented, and yet they’re still hard to fully appreciate. To provide some context, by the time he composed the opera Don Giovanni (from which this arrangement is taken), he was just 30 and had already composed hundreds of incredibly beautiful and

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