Bet you can't play this! Mozart adagio written for glass armonica

The glass armonica is an obscure musical instrument invented by none other than Benjamin Franklin. The curious novelty of Franklin's invention saw it spread to Europe where prolific and influential composer W.A. Mozart, among others, wrote music for it. Notes are sounded by wet fingers on a spinning glass cylinder, in similar fashion to wet fingers producing audible tones on rims of wine glasses. The sound can be described as etheric, angelic or heavenly.



Adagio for Glass Harmonica, K 356, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)


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