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Quotes by famous composers about Mozart. There are lots more quotes proliferating around, including those from my Mozart and classical music groups, but these are amongst favourites, and speaking of a favourite book of quotations about this wunderkind, I find Mozartiana by Joseph Solman the best.To Mozart lovers and enthusiasts, it is always fascinating to know what other composers say about him. Sometimes, one reads or hears about the quotes but is unable to identify the famous composer who said it. Mozart was Tchaikovsky's hero, who described his attitude to the wunderkind as one of "passionate worship." Here are some of these familiar quotations, reflective of how they relate to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
One of Mozart's most popular works, A Little Night Music (Eine kleine nachmusik), is a serenade of the 18th century which he wrote during a fateful year in his life. This was in 1787 when his father died in Salzburg, but Mozart was in Vienna and was too ill to attend it. This was also the same year that one of Mozart's greatest admirers, the 16-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven visited him, however, there is no evidence on this meeting.
Quote by Mozart:
"It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has became 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 ".
(Spoken by Mozart in Prague 1787, to conductor Kucharz, who led rehearsals for Mozart's famous opera DON GIOVANNI. Mozart the Man and the Artist, by Friedrich Kerst, p.17. Honestly, it doesn't sound like Mozart to me. Any comments from a Mozartian is welcome.)
Quotes on Mozart
"The marvelous beauty of his quartets and quintets, and of some of his sonatas, first converted me to this celestial genius, whom whence forth I worshipped." ~ Hector Berlioz, Memoirs
"It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion." ~ Leonard Bernstein