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Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
Pastor
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Mozart
Moderation
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Mysterious

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