Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin will play the last three Mozart symphonies at the Musikfest Berlin. Mozart once again impressively summarizes his mastery of composition and his imagination which anticipates Beethoven’s thinking and work. Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin know all sides of Mozart’s art, chamber music, serenades, solo concerts, symphonies, great vocal works and even operas. Mozart’s last three symphonies draw from this experience and some of the topoi from all these areas. They underline the genre’s claim to universality, which was already beyond question for Beethoven.