Andras Schiff is tired of some people saying they don’t care for Mozart. “Why is it that certain people get such immense pleasure from this kind of iconoclasm? Does attacking the greatest artists in history make them feel better? It’s good to enjoy the benefits of democracy, such as freedom of speech – let’s remember the recent affair with the Danish cartoons and not ever take it for granted. But Mozart’s greatest admirers included Haydn, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Nietzsche, Debussy, and Britten. Putting this list against that of a few detractors, whose side would you like to be on?”