Flipping through a biography of Mozart that he first read in college, its pages now yellowed with age, he says that the greatness of Mozart's achievement lies precisely in the non-national character of his music.
梅哲翻開自大學時代就開始研讀、書頁已泛黃四散的「莫札特傳」表示，莫札特的「反民族樂風」態度正是成就其偉大之處。