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
Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head.
I am a fool. That is well known.
If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice.
Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.
A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.
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.
Music is my life and my life is music.
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
It is when I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer.....that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.
The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.
Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa.
Melody is the essence of music.