Mozart inspired
 

I'm pretty sure Mozart would have been an inspirational force for many creative minds: Freud, Einstein, Kant, Tesla, Darwin, to name a few. And of course a multitude of musicians as well.

I have been collecting those little bits of wood that get left over from burning incense sticks. I couldn't say why at the time!
Then I noticed a pair of tourmaline stones I have which look like very small blackbirds eggs. So I get the idea to make a nest for them using the sticks, and they can sit undisturbed within a houseplant.
But, I put the art project on hold until I could figure out what I could use for nest padding.

So I tried a little experiment today. I hummed a Mozart tune and thought about what padding I might find in the house somewhere...dum dum dum dee dee dee dee dee dee dum dum dum dumty dumty dumty dum, dee dee dee dee dee duuuuummmmm...:smile: ...I'm sure you get the idea.

When suddenly, vwalla...I could use cotton wool dipped in very thin green poster paint. Perfect!
Which is what I'm doing just now!

Does that count ?

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Minuet,Mozart,Beethhoven. My kids got me into it because it's a big money market in the children items. It amazes me how easy it puts babies to sleep.

Here are a few I recommend. When you start listening to them over and over,its pretty powerful and infectious

Debussy Clair de Lune (a personal fav)
moonlight sonata
Bach- minuet in G major
Canon in D

My favorite classical composers are from the Baroque era: Vivaldi, Bach, Handel...but I do listen to Mozart some, and like BlueClover, I bought CD's for my kids to fall asleep to -- (which is why they're geniuses and I'm not!)

He wrote some complex/interesting violin sonatas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7xPIyePmNk

I'm with muileag on the Baroque composers. I love the richness offered with the counterpoint music. I would also include Purcell to the mix.

They say tho about Mozart that he was channelling his music. Given his prolificness and the prodigy in him - there was a gift going on.

I'm crazy about classical music, absolutely crazy. Not all. The TOTP (Top of The Pops) for me would have to be Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiCJjD5bXXQ - listen at about 3.30mins for 1 mins. Daddy wrote words for that for me when I was born so I get all goopy when I hear that. For a man who was deaf to produce such wonder - well. Just well.

So recommending a favourite Mozart - well - that's a difficult one as it depends on the music you like - symphony, concerto, sonata -- all very very different in texture. I would throw in the clarinet concerto for good measure - notably the very simple and elegant slow movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QAAZ29cvfU

opera - oh i've forgotten opera.

Delicious opera, naughty opera!

So, a couple of yum arias from Don Giovanni:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKBzpfEGekc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1eFHA_PqNg

yum!

I love all your suggestions ladies.
Interesting how we've all worked classical music into putting our babies to sleep and/or relaxing them.
Because of this, my younger son secretly loves it. He'll never admit it at age fifteen, not a chance, but when it's playing in the background his mind wanders and never suggests I turn it off. lol
I'm pretty sure his early, peaceful memories of it come into play at those rare moments...and I secretly love it.