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James Jacobs

Apr 21, 2026

2:33
Yeah.
2:34
It's, um, it's, uh, it's, you know, such a light piece.
2:37
But, uh, we al- what we also know is that it was written a few months after the death of his father, Leopold, and, um, and the first piece that he wrote after, uh, his father's death was a piece called A Musical Joke, uh, which is this kind of parody of musical conventions at the time.
2:55
And, uh, you can read a lot into this, um, in terms of the relat- what it says about the relationship between Mozart and his father.
3:03
Um, and, uh, some scholars have speculated that this piece was written out of a sort of inner compulsion of Mozart's to kind of right the record and kind of show his late father that, yes, he was listening.
3:16
He knew the rules of how to do a conventional piece.
3:19
And, uh, and I, I...
7:00
Yeah
46:25
Mm-hmm.
46:25
Like, it's regular.
46:27
Um, you don't really understand that that person in that story didn't come back in real life.
46:32
Um, and so as a kid, I thought, uh, I, I...
46:37
You know, in 2003, 2004, I was listening to Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
46:41
And, like, that was the epitome of being a gangster.
46:45
And so, um, once I realized after, you know, as a kid, it's not, it ain't, you know, just a song.

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54:08
Mm.
10:01
Yeah.
10:01
Like, it's regular.
10:03
Um, you don't really understand that that person in that story didn't come back in real life.
10:08
Um, and so as a kid, I thought, uh, I, I, you know, in 2003, 2004, I was listening to Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
10:17
And, like, that was the epitome of being a gangster.
10:21
And so, um, once I realized after, you know, as a kid, it's not, it ain't, you know, just a song.
10:29
It, it...

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18:03
Mm-hmm.

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