Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes


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- Composer and musician January 27 , 1756 - December 05 , 1791 Amazon Top 10 Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Read full biography

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Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Spoken on his deathbed to his sister-in-law, Sophie Weber - 05-12-1791, from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel - 1906.


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Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: 'Chi sa...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

As spoken to Michael Kelly, from Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the King's Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, including a period of nearly half a century; with Original Anecdotes of many distinguished Personnages, Political, Literary, and Musical - London, Henry Colburn, 1826; digitized 2006.


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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...

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Spoken in Prague, 1787, to conductor Kucharz, who led the rehearsals for Don Giovanni, from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel - 1906.


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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Letter to Leopold Mozart - 12-07-1783, from The Complete Operas of Mozart: a critical guide By Charles Osborne - 1983.


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My fatherland has always the first claim on me.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Letter to Leopold Mozart - 24-11-1781, from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel - 1906.


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As I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Letter to Leopold Mozart - Mannheim, 12-11-1778, from Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, ed. Robert Spaethling - 2000.


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