Quote #76

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great composers never sacrificed form to expression. As high as their expression may soar, their musical form remains supreme and all-efficient. ~ Camille Saint-Saens

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  1. Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece. ~ Camille Saint-Saens
  2. Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters. ~ Artur Schnabel
  3. Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day! ~ Gioacchino Rossini
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  5. Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to do what was beyond him. ~ Romain Rolland
  6. A light, bright, fine day this will remain throughout my whole life. As from afar, the magic notes of Mozart's music still gently haunts me…
  7. There was nothing exceptional about the physical presence of this extraordinary man; he was small and his appearance gave no sign of his ge…
  8. A world that has produced a Mozart is a world worth saving. What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart! ~ Franz Schubert

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