Mozart the innovator   I should probably have my head examined,
writing a refutation of  a column by Norman Lebrecht.
 Lebrecht, you see, the prominent classical journalist, author
of several books, sometimes radio interviewer and writer of the
essential "Slipped Disc" blog, is a first-rate provocateur.
 There are few not-bads or pretty-goods in Lebrecht's world;
everything either gets praised to the hilt or dragged through
the mud.  Yeah, like I should talk, but I couldn't hold a
candle, or a shovel, next to him.  No one in classical music
better demonstrates how those who stake out the most extreme
positions get the most attention — yet here I am, taking the
bait.  However, this time, Lebrecht has gone too far.  If he
wants to indulge in gossip, to breathlessly report the latest
scandal, or to generally fly off into a royal snit (such as the
fist-pounding tirade against America's "drug culture" I once
witnessed), fine.  But put down Mozart?  Dem's fightin' words!
In the article in question, "The Mozart Del