He can, very innovatively,
actually change keys
without risking huge dissonances.
(Music: "Fantasia On Jesu, Mein Freunde" by Johann S. Bach)
This is a little bit later.
This is the kind of rooms that Mozart wrote in.
I think we're in like 1770, somewhere around there.
They're smaller, even less reverberant,
so he can write really frilly music
that's very intricate -- and it works.
(Music: "Sonata in F," KV 13, by Wolfgang A. Mozart)
It fits the room perfectly.
This is La Scala.
It's around the same time,
I think it was built around 1776.
People in the audience in these opera houses, when they were built,
they used to yell out to one another.
They used to eat, drink and yell out to people on the stage,
just like they do at CBGB's and places like that.
If they liked an aria,
they would holler and suggest