8. Charles Rosen writes of this final statement of the opening theme: “The initial phrase is used once more with magnificent effect… . immediately following the cadenza; until now, each time it appeared it was left … not only unresolved, but almost isolated, with a silence that separated it from all that followed. This last time, it melts into the succeeding phrase and is resolved in one of the most expressive, and yet perhaps most conventional, phrases that Mozart could have written” (The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven [New York: W. W. Norton, rev. 1972], 224).