Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio in Cminor for Glass Armonica
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		Running Time: 6:01
	Hearing the opening chords, I was instantly reminded of when I went to see The Phantom of the Opera. That creepy feeling aside, this is a beautiful piece. It was written for a very rare and unusual instrument which was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. The glass armonica was a collection of tuned glasses on a rotating hollow cork rod, to be played with a damp finger. The glass armonica is supported in this piece by flutes and several strings. The instrument itself must have been hard to play, so I don't suppose that the fact Mozart wrote a piece for it helped much, he was (And still is) notorious for his very complicated works. There was one person who was located in Finland who could play this intricate, but hauntingly beautiful work. The makers of Amadeus must have had one hell of a time trying to find a remaining glass armonica and (even harder) finding someone who could play it well enough to do a Mozart piece.