18th century Quote by Eric Weiner

Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, none of them were born in Vienna. They all moved there. It became a magnet, but what made it magnetized in…

— Eric Weiner

Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for…

— Eric Weiner

“The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.”

— Charles Emmerson

“Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It was the…

— Sándor Márai

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

— Ernest Newman

How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the…

— Charles Hazlewood

Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many…

— Eric Weiner

For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can…

— Charles Hazlewood

“[W]ithout travelling one remains a poor creature; that goes especially for people in the arts and sciences! [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]”

— Jasper Rees

Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he…

— Cecilia Bartoli

I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because…

— Andris Nelsons