#mozart

When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss. ↗

— Robert Greenberg

#pianos #music

Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies. ↗

— Robert Greenberg

#movies

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#forget #mozart #naughty #people #punk

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#anybody #belong #boy #genius #go

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#killer #mozart #now #rock #song

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#his #last #mozart #revolutionary #years

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#already #been #consider #dead #had

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart. ↗

— Karl Barth

#angels #bach #famille #god #however

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human. ↗

— Colin R. Davis

#human #more #mozart #something #than

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto. ↗

— George Shearing

#few #first #i #movement #mozart