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Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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Mozart
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Subjectivity

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