Angelic Quote by Yehudi Menuhin

Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the…

— Leonard Bernstein

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

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

“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 creates a universe out of pleasantries.”

— Rae Armantrout

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

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and…

— H. L. Mencken

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.

— Peter Shaffer

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

“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

“This was Beethoven’s great significance, not through form or musical language, but in recalibrating what music was for. Single-handedly he turned it from genteel,…

— Howard Goodall

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in…

— Cecilia Bartoli