Age Quote by Leonard Bernstein

Mozart resolved his emotions on a level that transformed them into moods uncontaminated by mortal anguish, enabling him to express the angelic anguish that…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is…

— Andre Gide

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to…

— Stendhal

“heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this within his…

— Karl Barth

“Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe itself,”

— Walter Isaacson

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

— Charles Gounod

“music is the worst of them - roiling and boiling - overly emotionalized on the one hand, overly intellectuallized on the other. Bach and…

— Timothy Findley

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

“The golden trail was blazed and I was reminded of the eternal, of Mozart, of the stars. For an hour I could breathe again…

— Hermann Hesse

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

— Franz Schubert

“He has heard, and causes those with ears to hear, even today, what we shall not see until the end of time - the…

— Karl Barth

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

— Roy Blount, Jr