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9. The Pursuit of Happiness



Kenneth Clark reflects on the 18th-century music of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart and on the way that some of its qualities are reflected in the best of the rococo architecture, the pilgrimage churches and palaces of Bavaria.

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