Amadeus Quote by Gioachino Rossini

Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody before them…

— Emmanuel Macron

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

— Richard Wagner

Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More…

— Charles Hazlewood

How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his…

— Maria Luisa Bombal

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else…

— Lukas Foss

“People marvel at the genius of Mozart because he supposedly wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" at the age of three and composed his first…

— Charles Martin

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

— Maurice Baring

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.

— Robert Schumann

There's so many different ways to play Mozart.

— Hilary Hahn

Mozart is the incarnation of music.

— Joseph Haydn

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

— Lukas Foss

“Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties was far…

— Robert Fritz