8 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes on Composition

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quotes on composition

11. It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.

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.

20. Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

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32. 21 piano sonatas, 27 piano concertos, 41 symphonies, 18 masses, 13 operas, 9 oratorios and cantata, 2 ballets, 40 plus concertos for various instruments, string quartets, trios and quintets, violin and piano duets piano quartets, and the songs. This astounding output includes hardly one work less than a masterpiece.

47. Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. ~ Frederic Chopin

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

83. The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment. ~ Peter Shaffer

89. Mozart touched no problem without solving it to perfection. ~ Donald Francis Tovey