" But the significance of this experience for Mozart's personal development — and so for his development as a musician or, to put it differently, for that of his music — cannot be convincingly and realistically assessed if one merely describes the fate of the individual person, without also offering a model of the social structures of his time, especially where they led to differences of power. Only within the framework of such a model can one discern what a person like Mozart enmeshed in this society was able to do as an individual, and what — no matter how strong, great or unique he may have been — he was not able to do. "

― Norbert Elias , Mozart: Portrait of a Genius