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

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece. ~ Camille Saint-Saens

Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters. ~ Artur Schnabel

Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day! ~ Gioacchino Rossini

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 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…

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thou…