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To win applause, one must either write things so simple that any driver could sing them, or so incomprehensible that one likes them only because no one normal person does not understand this.
At the age of six, Mozart composed his first clavier concerto. The father took the notes from him and exclaimed:
- But this concerto is so difficult that no one can play it!
- No, - the son objected, - even a child can play it. For example me.
After listening to Mozart's opera "The Abduction from the Seraglio", Austrian emperor Joseph II remarked: "Too many notes." - "Not a single superfluous, Your Majesty," Mozart objected.
Quotes about Mozart
I don't know if the angels really only play Bach in the presence of God; but I am sure that in their home circle they play Mozart.
Karl Barth
Many Mozart fans cannot stand being told that their hero was by no means the founder of a dynasty. But the heights of art are reached by the last of the generation, and not by the first. Almost anyone can start something; it is difficult to finish what has been started - to create something that can no longer be surpassed.
Six bars of a Mozart sonata would tell me more about the pianist's artistic gifts than twenty concertos like Tchaikovsky's.
The pure air of Parnassus acts on the Titans like oxygen on mice: first excites them, and then kills them. A good artist is one who breathes this air like a native inhabitant of Parnassus, and creates with the same calmness with which an ordinary person performs his usual work. This is exactly what Mozart did.
George Bernard Shaw
Mozart's operas are the highest form of existence of organized matter.
Sylvia Cheese
Mozart's sonatas are unique: they are too easy for children and too difficult for adult artists.
Artur Schnabel
It is very sobering to think that Mozart, at my age, has been dead for a year.
Tom Lehrer, American songwriter
There is no female Mozart for the same reason that there is no female Jack the Ripper.
Camille Paglia
we love this wonderful composer so dearly, so dearly."
Dmitry Shostakovich
"I don't know if angels really play Bach in the presence of God, but I'm sure that in their home circle they play Mozart."
Karl Barth
"Mozart's work is an encyclopedia where a musician can learn everything. Mozart is a standard composer with a brilliant taste combined with the deepest human emotions, feelings, and a variety of thinking. He combines incredible courage, innovation, while remaining a deeply lyrical composer at the same time" .
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
"In my youth I said - I and Mozart, then I began to say - Mozart and I; Now I only say - Mozart."
Charles Gounod
"For me, Beethoven is the first of all. But Mozart is the only one!"
Gioacchino Rossini
Mozart, like Bach, belongs to a rare breed of conservative revolutionaries or revolutionary conservatives.
Mozart does not belong to any nation and at the same time - to each of them. Mozart is universal. He is not a national musician and not international. He stands above the nations."
Alfred Einstein
"... (Mozart) is so easy to understand. You can listen to him distractedly, relaxing, minding your own business, reading a newspaper. It's not that I don't love Mozart - it's worse. I condemn him, I condemn his secularism. However, there are no rules without exceptions. I mean his Hafner symphony, anyway, the first movement of it, dense, compact, beautifully structured. And a few more quintets. And also some of his early things that have special meaning for me. I like early Mozart; I really am crazy about him ... As you can see, my feelings for Mozart are contradictory.
"I loved Mozart, then I lost him for a while, then I found him again, never to lose him again." Edvard Grieg
"I wish I could write as simply (like Mozart)!"
Richard Strauss
"According to my deep conviction, Mozart is the highest, culminating point, to which beauty has reached in the field of music. No one made me cry, tremble with delight, from the consciousness of my closeness to something that we call the ideal, like him. In Mozart "I love everything, because we love everything in the person we really love. Most of all, Don Juan, because thanks to him I learned what music is."
P.I. Tchaikovsky
"... I drown in Mozart's sonatas!"
Johannes Brahms
"From Alban Berg I heard the following assessment of the music of Anton Webern, which at first confused me, but which I began to understand very well after I became aware of Berg's desire for popularity: "Webern writes very beautiful music, which, however, never will achieve popularity. His music is like the music of Mozart; Mozart is also unpopular". F.M. Gershkovich quotes the following words of A. Berg
1829:
“Nevertheless, I do not lose hope of hearing worthy music for Faust,” I said.
“That cannot be,” replied Goethe, “that terrible, repulsive, disgusting thing that she must express in places is not in the taste of our time.” Here such music as in "Don Giovanni" would be needed. Mozart, that's who could write music for Faust "(Eckerman I. Conversations with Goethe. Yerevan, 1988. S. 178, 277).
"The hopes you placed in the opera, you could see realized in the very the highest degree in a recent production of Don Juan. But this play stands apart; with the death of Mozart, all hope for anything like this disappeared" (to Goethe-Schiller, Weimar, 1797, vol. 1. M., 1988. p. 473)
"IB: Mozart has no anguish, because he is higher than the anguish.
while in Beethoven or Chopin everything rests on it.
SV: Of course we can find reflections in Mozart
supra-individual, which Beethoven, and even more so Chopin, do not have. But also
Beethoven and Chopin are such grandiose figures...
IB: Maybe. But, rather, - to the side, along the plane, and not
up.
SW: I understand what you mean. But from this point of view
the increased emotional tone of Tsvetaeva should rather scare you away.
IB: Exactly the opposite. Nobody understands this."
Joseph Brodsky, Solomon Volkov
"Mozart is often given to children to play, as he has few notes, but adults are afraid to play Mozart because each note is too important."
A. Schnabel
What is Mozart's secret? - No answer.
S. Richter
Mozart... This means that the world has a meaning and this meaning is palpable for us in its likeness - in music.
G. Hesse
Perhaps there is no name in music before which mankind bowed so favorably, rejoiced and touched so much. Mozart is a symbol of music itself.
Boris Asafiev
"Mozart is the youth of music, it is an eternally young spring, bringing to mankind the joy of spring renewal and spiritual harmony. The bottomless depth of his most humane images, the amazing courage of his innovative discoveries that moved musical art forward for decades, the perfect harmony and harmony of form - this is the strength of Mozart, this is the greatness of his art, which fades through the ages.
we love this wonderful composer so dearly, so dearly."
Dmitry Shostakovich
"I don't know if angels really play Bach in the presence of God, but I'm sure that in their home circle they play Mozart."Karl Barth
"Mozart's work is an encyclopedia where a musician can learn everything. Mozart is a standard composer who has a brilliant taste combined with the deepest human emotions, feelings, and diversity of thinking. He combines incredible courage, innovation, while remaining at the same time a deeply lyrical composer" .Gennady Rozhdestvensky
"In my youth I said - I and Mozart, then I began to say - Mozart and I; Now I only say - Mozart."Charles Gounod
"For me, Beethoven is the first of all. But Mozart is the only one!"Gioacchino Rossini
Mozart, like Bach, belongs to a rare breed of conservative revolutionaries or revolutionary conservatives.Mozart does not belong to any nation and at the same time - to each of them. Mozart is universal. He is not a national musician and not international. He stands above the nations."
Alfred Einstein
"... (Mozart) is so easy to understand. You can listen to him distractedly, relaxing, minding your own business, reading a newspaper. It's not that I don't love Mozart - it's worse. I condemn him, I condemn his secularism. However, there are no rules without exceptions. I mean his Hafner symphony, anyway, the first movement of it, dense, compact, beautifully structured. And a few more quintets. And also some of his early things that have special meaning for me. I like early Mozart; I really am crazy about him ... As you can see, my feelings for Mozart are contradictory.Glen Gould
"I loved Mozart, then I lost him for a while, then I found him again, never to lose him again."
Edvard Grieg
"I wish I could write as simply (like Mozart)!"Richard Strauss
"According to my deep conviction, Mozart is the highest, culminating point, to which beauty has reached in the field of music. No one made me cry, tremble with delight, from the consciousness of my closeness to something that we call the ideal, like him. In Mozart "I love everything, because we love everything in the person we really love. Most of all, Don Juan, because thanks to him I learned what music is."P.I. Tchaikovsky
"... I drown in Mozart's sonatas!"
Johannes Brahms
"From Alban Berg I heard the following assessment of the music of Anton Webern, which at first confused me, but which I began to understand very well after I became aware of Berg's desire for popularity: "Webern writes very beautiful music, which, however, never will achieve popularity. His music is like the music of Mozart; Mozart is also unpopular."F.M. Gershkovich quotes the following words of A. Berg
1829:“Nevertheless, I do not lose hope of hearing worthy music for Faust,” I said.
“That cannot be,” replied Goethe, “that terrible, repulsive, disgusting thing that she must express in places is not in the taste of our time.” Here such music as in "Don Giovanni" would be needed. Mozart, that's who could write music for Faust"
(Eckerman I. Conversations with Goethe. Yerevan, 1988. S. 178, 277).
"The hopes that you placed on the opera, you could see realized to the highest degree in the recent production of Don Juan. But this play stands apart; with the death of Mozart, any hope for anything like that disappeared"(To Goethe-Schiller, Weimar, 1797 T. 1. M., 1988. S. 473)
"IB: Mozart has no anguish, because he is higher than the anguish.while in Beethoven or Chopin everything rests on it.
SV: Of course we can find reflections in Mozart
supra-individual, which Beethoven, and even more so Chopin, do not have. But also
Beethoven and Chopin are such grandiose figures...
IB: Maybe. But, rather, - to the side, along the plane, and not
up.
SW: I understand what you mean. But from this point of view
the increased emotional tone of Tsvetaeva should rather scare you away.
IB: Exactly the opposite. Nobody understands this."
