5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes on History

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quotes on history

9. I care very little for Salzburg and not at all for the archbishop: I shit on both of them.

31. As with all great artists, Mozart expressed not only the soul, the taste and the aroma of his epoch, but also the spiritual world of man-man for all ages, in all the complexity of his desires, his struggles and ambivalence. Some of us, who only identify in Mozart a certain aristocratic refinement, may find these words strange. Often we meet with a condescending attitude towards him, to his music, reminiscent of chiming bells in a music box! ...'It's very nice, but not for me' say such people, 'give me passion - Beethoven, Brahms, tragic, monumental...' Such comments only reveal one thing, these people don't know Mozart.

57. Mozart did not die too early, but rather too late. ~ Glenn Gould

58. For one moment in the history of music all opposites were reconciled; all tensions resolved; that luminous moment was Mozart. ~ Phil Goulding

92. The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. ~ Richard Wagner