Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth27 January 1756
CitySalzburg, Austria
CountryAustria
I too had to work hard, so as not to have to work hard any longer.
An astonishing number of kisses are flying about! I see a whole crowd of them. Ha! Ha! I have just caught three - They are delicious... I kiss you millions of times.
Now there is music from which a man can learn something.
Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head.
What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!
It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.
I really do not aim at any originality.
Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
Music is my life and my life is music.
To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.
The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What delight this is I cannot tell!
My dear sister! I’m amazed to discover that you can compose so delightfully. In a word, your Lied is beautiful. You must compose more often.
Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.