3 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes on Aesthetics

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quotes on aesthetics

16. 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.

23. Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

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45. If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity. ~ Johannes Brahms