Quote #42

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.

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  1. Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible. ~ Allan Bloom
  2. In my dreams of heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite. ~ V…
  3. Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after anothe…
  4. Together with the puzzle, Mozart gives you the solution. ~ Ferruccio Busoni
  5. Mozart has the classic purity of light and the red ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and w…
  6. If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity. ~ Johannes Brahms
  7. Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven and Bach tells us what it's like to be the un…
  8. It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace. ~ Johannes Brahms

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