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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Age: 35 †
Born: 1756
Born: January 27
Died: 1791
Died: December 5
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Mozart
Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Amadeus Mozart
W. A. Mozart
Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus Mozart
Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart
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Volphnkank Amedaios Motsart
Apollo Mozzart
Wolfgango Amadeo Mozart
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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 più, meno sa Who knows most, knows least.
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I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.
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What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!
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When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as my mind might wish.
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Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa.
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My fatherland has always the first claim on me.
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Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.
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Now there is music from which a man can learn something.
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I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog, just like a brute. That is his reward!
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You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
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True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.
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To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
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I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day.
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I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time all together.
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Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know still in so far we do! what God wills!
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Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and 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.
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If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice.
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For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not - but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes - bad, if he always stays in the same place.
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The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear is now incapable of hearing. Among these new sounds will be the glorious music of angelic chorales. As men hear these they will cease to consider Angels as figments of their imagination.
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I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion
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