Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth27 January 1756
CitySalzburg, Austria
CountryAustria
Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.
Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa.
An astonishing number of kisses are flying about! I see a whole crowd of them. Ha! Ha! I have just caught three - They are delicious... I kiss you millions of times.
Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.
Love guards the heart from the abyss.
I write [music] as a sow piddles.
To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.
Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time all together.
When I am . . . traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.