Yale's Craig Wright turns to Mozart in this lecture from Listening to Music (MUSI 112), opening with the shift from Baroque to Classical style before tracing Mozart's life through his own letters. Wright pairs biographical detail with Mozart's compositional sketches, using them to show how the composer balanced structure and invention. The lecture builds toward a performance of scenes from Don Giovanni, with guest singer Richard Lalli demonstrating the opera's dramatic and musical construction live. Recorded in fall 2008, the session moves from letters to sketches to staged excerpts, giving a concrete sense of how Mozart's private working methods produced music still heard as effortless. Chapters mark the progression clearly, from the historical framing of Classical style to the closing operatic performance.