Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön Williams suggest that the opening notes of "Dies Bildnis" spill over into other numbers of "The Magic Flute": "The opening phrase of 'Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön' turns up at a half-dozen unexpected places in the second finale. These and similar melodic remembrances are not to be regarded as leitmotifs in the Wagnerian sense but as partly unconscious echoes of musical ideas that were in Mozart's mind throughout the composition of the opera." One such echo has been repeatedly noted: the phrase to which Pamina sings the words "" ("My Tamino! Oh what happiness!") when she and Tamino are reunited
Mozart and the Wolf Gang Mozart and the Wolf Gang Mozart and the Wolf Gang is a 1991 novel by Anthony Burgess about the life and world of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Published in the UK under this title, in the US it was published as "On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang, Being a Celestial Colloquy, an Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination". Among other things, it attempts to fictionalize Mozart's Symphony No.40. This is one of numerous Burgess books in which music figures prominently, others being "A Vision of Battlements"; "The Worm and the Ring"; "The Malayan Trilogy"; "A Clockwork