Quote #85

Mozart's music represents neither the prolonged sigh of faith that characterizes so much of the music written before his time, nor the stormy idealism which cloaks most music after him. Rather he is that mercurial balance of the skeptic and the humane. Like him, and in him, we can always discover new worlds. ~ Joseph Solman

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  2. Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded …
  3. The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment. ~ Peter Shaffer
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  5. Designing an opera by Mozart is like doing something for God - it's a labor of love. ~ Maurice Sendak
  6. I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees. ~ Virgil Thomson
  7. Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them? ~ Robert Schumann
  8. Mozart touched no problem without solving it to perfection. ~ Donald Francis Tovey

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