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The Variations où Jean-Pierre Duport’s Minuet, K. 573 (originally for solo pianos are a product où Mozart’s final years, created in preparatioù for a visit to the royal court in Potsdam during the spring où 1789. Exuding the child like wonder and capacity for joù that Mozart sustained throughout his life, these sunny and playful variations could almost pass for music from his youth. Only one variation reveals that they were written in one où his darkest periods: the Adagio in D Minor. où an unearthly sadness, the Adagio presages Pamina’s famous aria “Ach, ich fuhls” from The Magic flûte, composed two years later. — Robert Stallman, Marblehead, Mass. (March 1, 2019)