Rather, Rubinstein plays the Quartets (and the young Guarneri members gladly follow his lead) as pure music, respectful and drained of overt excitement, with emotions largely repressed, a thick sonority, deliberate pacing and few romantic artifacts. He revisited the topic in an essay the next decade called My Thoughts On The Book. The German original 2 is in rhymed verse. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, this wonderful and complex human being did it all and we are much richer for it.