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Symphony No. 41, K.551, "Jupiter" was Mozart's last symphony, which he did not live to hear peformed.
Its coda is a high point of Western Classical music tradition: a five-part invertible fugue of dazzling complexity. It comprises a mere 30 measures (about 25 seconds), a marvel of compression.
Mozart's composition is a masterpiece of dexterity within a formal system.
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