2nd 30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 23 - A Letter To...

We're winding down to the last week of this challenge with Day 23: "A letter to someone, anyone".

What a difficult decision to make. There are so many people I would like to write a letter to - from those that I know and miss to people I've never met. Or perhaps to someone who passed on from this life or to someone who is fictional. I really struggled making a decision on this task, but finally decided to write a letter to someone not living. I figure if I have something to say to the living, then I'll just say it to them. Therefore of all the people who have gone before or who are fictitious that I wanted to send a letter to, I narrowed the list down to five recipients. This is a list of people for whom I would dearly love to meet and speak with but alas cannot: Jane Austen, Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice (I know she's fiction, but I still have questions for her), Claude Monet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and William Shakespeare. In order to narrow this list to one person, I went to the Wheel Decide website, put their names into the wheel and spun. Here's where the wheel landed:

Dear Herr Mozart,

First of all, I would like to thank you for giving the world your incredible music. In my opinion, you are hands down the best composer of all time. In a world that is oftentimes shitty and depressing, you remind us all that there is beauty and grace in a world gone crazy.

Mozart c.1780

Now to the questions. There was a play/movie (Amadeus) that was written by an English playwright Peter Shaffer based on your life and I wonder how much of it is accurate. By the way, I think you would have loved this testament to your life. I know that you and Salieri were contemporaries, but from what I've read, there was very little acrimony between the two of you. In truth, what did you think of Salieri and his music?

Vienna has been described by some as the center of music world when you lived there.  What was Vienna like? I have never traveled to Vienna (yet), but I would dearly love to know what 18th century Vienna was like.

Lastly, what do you think about the transformation of music over the past 223 years since your demise?  Music has changed dramatically and I would be interested in hearing your thoughts. I suspect that you would have embraced the changes.

I thank you again for sharing your music with the world and am saddened that you died as such a young age (35) because you had so much more to offer this world.

With much respect and admiration,

This is my favorite piece of music by Mozart: Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C major. I get goosebumps and weepy when I hear this piece of music.

Tomorrow is Day 24: "a lesson learned the hard way".