Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Moza…

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night wh…

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and …

Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics,…