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“But if music is already a few years out of date, it's…” — Freakonomics Radio at 14:14

“But if music is already a few years out of date, it's old-fashioned. And so there was no way that Baron van Sweeten could put Messiah on the way it was in Vienna in the 1780s. So he said to Mozart, do something. And so Mozart added this and that and the other instrumentation. He didn't change the structure or the…”

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