I Am An Unusual Thing

Michael Nyman e Ute Lemper do álbum Songbook (1992) Uma extraordinária música de Michael Nyman, interpretada por Ute Lemper, sobre palavras de Mozart três dias antes de sua morte, de uma conversa registada em inglês entre Constanze Mozart e V. Novello. I am an unusual thing. I have no soul and no body. One cannot see me but can hear me. I do not exist for me alone. Only a human being can give me life as often as he wishes. And my life is only of short duration, for I die almost at the moment I am born. And so, according to man’s caprice, I may live and die untold times a day. To those who give me life I do nothing, but those on whose account I am born I leave with painful sensations for the short duration of my life; of my life till I depart.* I am appointed to a situation which will afford me leisure to write music just to please myself. And I feel capable of doing something worthy of the fame I’ve acquired. But instead, I must die.** 10: I Am An Unusual Thing