The surprising story of a bird that played Mozart’s music. On one of his walks, Mozart is surprised by the song of a bird. The matter would not have been important if it had not been so, for the notes emitted by the bird corresponded to those of a score which the musician had just completed.
Rousseau’s work was the organic response to Descartes’ rational mechanism. For Rousseau, state affairs were more successfully resolved under an oak tree in the open air than in an office.
The relationship between man and nature had a pioneer in Rosseau. So much so that thanks to the influence of his ideas, pets became popular among the bourgeois classes favored by the revolution. With the new era, animals lost the feature that identified them with machines; They were sentient beings who suffered and loved, contrary to what Descartes could think.
In this time of change, animals from every continent are coming to Europe, with songbirds being the best sellers in pet shops. There was no middle-class living room that was not enlivened by the exotic song of a bird brought from the other side of the world. However, it should be noted that the cages in which they were presented were ornate cells. In this way, the birds in the above-mentioned rooms shone. And this is something we can call a deformation of the Rousseau-inspired ecological spirit. Definitely.
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Now let’s move on to Mozart, because in one of these shops on the most commercial street in Vienna – Grabenstrasse – the musician is surprised by the song of a bird singing Allegretto. The matter would not have been important if the same notes that the bird emitted had not come from a score that Mozart had just composed and not yet published. Nobody knew her except him.
This reached a level that went beyond the surprising, and Mozart felt the cold. In the end, the musician bought the bird, a starling he named Starling, according to North American ornithologist Lyanda Lynn Haupt in an entertaining book called “Mozart’s Starling,” recently published in Captain Swing. It is an agile reading work in which historical anecdotes alternate with testimonies; a book in which Lyanda Lynn Haupt tells us about her relationship with her star, based on the relationship Mozart had with his.
But returning to the story at the beginning, to that of Mozart, who was surprised by the song of a small bird interpreting a song whose score only the musician knew, we can dare to say that birds not only have the ability to predict disasters and changes predictable in atmospheric pressure. , but they can also play on our capacity for wonder, in an example of temporal coincidence like the one we are dealing with today; two melodies so similar that they lead us to suspect that the cause of this synchronicity lies far away, in an unknown dimension.
Mozart bought the bird in order to find a hidden explanation for the strange coincidence in the starling. What Mozart didn’t know is that what is surprising is actually not that surprising, and that what was really surprising, far from the miracle, the unknown dimension and other magic tricks, would have been that these coincidences, these synchronicities – he said like If Jung had done so, it would not have happened, since Mozart’s music is an imitation of nature itself.
The stone axe It is a section in which Montero Glez, with his desire for prose, makes his particular attack on scientific reality to show that science and art are complementary forms of knowledge.
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