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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
27 January
1756 - 5 December 1791
Mozart was born in Salzburg,
Austria on January 27, 1756. His life is a fantastic tribute
to the art of composing. Much can be learned from him. The
story goes that he just sat down and wrote note after note
without correction. I thought immediately he must have had a
system of some sort. After talking to some friends who are
musicians and getting the feeling that there was a higher
truth to his music, I came up with the thought that it must
relate to mathematics.
The theme of this art piece
is just that. Before Leonardo's time there was a mathematical
genius by the name of Fibonacci. He constructed many concepts
dealing with numbers and the golden section...one of these
systems is the sequence 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34..that is to take
the number and add to it the sum of the preceding number to
get the next...wow !! I thought if that isn't what music is I
don't know what is.
I sat down and started to
play with these numbers visually and came up with abstract
shapes based on them...using these shapes the forms of Mozart
began to appear...of all the images I have done in the
composer series I feel this is the one that is the most
lyrical.
Saul
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