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  • Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame and Mozart's Magic Flute were filled with Masonic symbolism and Grail secrets.†   (source)
  • We hire a string quartet to play the minuet from Mozart's Don Giovanni.†   (source)
  • In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.†   (source)
  • It certainly wasn't his music, for he edited Mozart in such a jaunty fashion that you thought he was playing "Mack the Knife"; now and then he played "Mack the Knife," too.†   (source)
  • Mozart, Bach, even the Italian Vivaldi.†   (source)
  • A modern novelist could no more write characters and plots than a modern composer could a Mozart symphony.†   (source)
  • Mozart's music.†   (source)
  • He placed himself between Alice and Mrs. Liddell, and when the concert began with a Mozart medley, he leaned over and whispered in Alice's ear, "I don't fancy medleys.†   (source)
  • After great deliberation, just as people were beginning to fidget, she had played a short piece by Mozart, adapted for children, but the guests wanted her to play "Jingle Bells."†   (source)
  • Mozart, for example, famously started writing music at six.†   (source)
  • I feel wonder, I feel awe, like a composer first discovering the works of Mozart.†   (source)
  • "We'll make a Mozart out of you yet," she said.†   (source)
  • There was a beautil ful Mozart concert on the radio from six to seven-fifteen; I especially enjoyed the Kleine Nachtmusik.†   (source)
  • The Mozart is so much nicer than the Gluck, don't you think?"†   (source)
  • Perhaps singing something from Mozart.†   (source)
  • "Her specialty was Mozart's fourteenth symphony."†   (source)
  • He kept about him a degree of calm that led Los Angeles Times columnist Jim Murray to write of him, "you half expect his headset is playing Mozart?'†   (source)
  • Do you get all those musical jokes in Mozart and Haydn?†   (source)
  • The great golden organ was one that Mozart had played, and some of its notes seemed to come from heaven itself.†   (source)
  • He started with Mozart, who isn't as bad as you might think.†   (source)
  • I'm going to be Mozart.†   (source)
  • My vision—I hate to admit it—but I'm going to have to do what Mozart did, and die.†   (source)
  • Taking advantage of the visit of the famous pianist Romeo Lussich, who played a cycle of Mozart sonatas as soon as the city had recovered from mourning the death of General Ignacio Maria, Dr. Juvenal Urbino had the piano from the Music School placed in a mule-drawn wagon and brought a history-making serenade to Fermina Daza.†   (source)
  • She had no idea that Aubrey Tompkins liked to throw us into the heavy stuff, particularly Mozart, and she wasn't quite up to it on the organ.†   (source)
  • He imagined her with the Mozart on at nine o'clock at night.†   (source)
  • Did all those Baby Mozart tapes pay off?†   (source)
  • But a few of them end up like John Locket" or Mozart or whatever.†   (source)
  • I'd smile and play my Bach or Mozart or whatever overused pieces of music they asked me to play.†   (source)
  • Or pecking out the music of Mozart . we'd only heard the night before with an infallible ear and a concentration that made her ghostly as she sat there hour after hour discovering the music the melody, then the bass, and finally bringing it together.†   (source)
  • He loved rock as much as Mozart.†   (source)
  • And I have been to the opera before, though I think that was Mozart.†   (source)
  • When I did, no one answered, although I could hear strains of Mozart through the open windows.†   (source)
  • His favorite composer was Handel, but he adored also the music of Bach and in 1764 had taken tremendous delight in hearing the boy Mozart perform on the organ.†   (source)
  • She ejected the spent tape, some Chopin suites, and found a Mozart opera in the locker, The Marriage of Figaro.†   (source)
  • What—like Mozart or Rembrandt or Michael Jordan?†   (source)
  • My parents went up for the ceremony in the Juilliard chapel, which, I gathered, was stark in word and dress, but rich in Bach and Mozart, thanks to Caroline's school friends.†   (source)
  • The chorus teacher and band instructor had dressed as Mozart and Scarlatti.†   (source)
  • Upstairs, Tradd was playing Mozart, the music spilling into the gardenlike snow out of season.†   (source)
  • But in my other life, I am a pianist, bringing to life, with my own hands, the genius of Bach, Mozart, and Chopin.†   (source)
  • But what happened of course was that I drove home and let her inside the house where we separated until the appointed exam, Sunny upstairs in her old room stripped of everything but the bed, and I down in the family room, listening to the records of Chopin and Mozart I had bought for her to use as models and inspiration.†   (source)
  • Halfway through the week, Abby and the girls were sitting on the screen porch one afternoon shucking corn, and they heard Mozart's Horn Concerto No. i playing out back.†   (source)
  • When I got home, my mother was back in her corner of the sofa with her needlepoint, Mozart on the stereo, a little night music, and I watched her feet point and flex with each beat, her slippers under the coffee table, what I assumed to be a new Schlitz all wrapped up beside her.†   (source)
  • I drank cups of coffee and listened to Mozart quintets and read the portions of the script he had cut out.†   (source)
  • The Mozart.†   (source)
  • I could no more explain his dreamsong to you than I could explain Mozart to one who had never heard music.†   (source)
  • Then you'll discover the beauty of Beethoven and Mozart.†   (source)
  • Cassie could see the bills dearly, in elaborate handwriting, the "z" in Mozart with an equals-sign through it and all the "y's" so heavily tailed they went through the paper.†   (source)
  • Then I'd realize it was Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 20 in D Minor from two hundred years ago.†   (source)
  • They had clocks that played a few measures of Mozart at the end of the hour.†   (source)
  • "Then after you've appreciated some Mozart, perhaps I can have some lunch."†   (source)
  • Along with Mozart, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Gershwin, Houdini, and Disney.†   (source)
  • "Only fair," I said, pointing to his Mozart ensemble.†   (source)
  • I can imagine Mozart or Beethoven sitting in a room up there with the light on.†   (source)
  • [* The Abduction of Mother, a possible reference to Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.†   (source)
  • Then to pass the time, he began to whistle a bit of Mozart from Cosi fan tutte.†   (source)
  • One time, feeling bold, I played a Mozart Sonata in an airport lobby, between connecting flights.†   (source)
  • Spiritualism is the craze of the middle classes, the women especially; they gather in darkened rooms and play at table-tilting the way their grandmothers played at whist, or they emit voluminous automatic writings, dictated to them by Mozart or Shakespeare; in which case being dead, thinks Simon, has a remarkably debilitating effect on one's prose style.†   (source)
  • "You," said Dr. Meescham to Flora, "will have a seat on the sofa and listen to the Mozart, and I will go and make us some sandwiches."†   (source)
  • I wanted to protest, but he started to play Mozart, soft and sweet, and I turned away, my eyes stinging.†   (source)
  • Mozart, Gershwin, Copland, Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Even Mozart, the greatest musical prodigy of all time, couldn't hit his stride until he had his ten thousand hours in.†   (source)
  • The group from the School of Fine Arts began their concert in the formal silence achieved for the opening bars of Mozart's "La Chasse.†   (source)
  • She'd been listening to Mozart's Jupiter Symphony as performed by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in 1947, and Ishmael, seeing it on the turntable, imagined her in bed with that melancholy music playing and a cup of tea beside her.†   (source)
  • The unlikely figure who captured the rarely uncritical hearts of my grandmother and Owen Meany was a shameless crowd pleaser, a musical panderer who chopped up Chopin and Mozart and Debussy into two— and three-minute exaggerated flourishes on a piano he played with diamond-studded hands.†   (source)
  • PHI appeared in the organizational structures of Mozart's sonatas, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as well as the works of Bartók, Debussy, and Schubert.†   (source)
  • "I'd want Mozart's Requiem," I said.†   (source)
  • But he still has Saint—Saens, Mozart, Brahms, Dvorak, Haydn and Beethoven in his head, so he tries to make something of their compositions on the two-string violin he claims to have bought at Motter's Music House in Cleveland many years ago.†   (source)
  • Mozart.†   (source)
  • Of those concertos that only contain music original to Mozart, the earliest that is now regarded as a masterwork (No.†   (source)
  • Langdon quickly told her about works by Da Vinci, Botticelli, Poussin, Bernini, Mozart, and Victor Hugo that all whispered of the quest to restore the banished sacred feminine.†   (source)
  • You should hear my Mozart.†   (source)
  • Mozart, I guess.†   (source)
  • Apparently, he was walking down the hallway when he happened to hear a Mozart Variation emanating from the ballroom.†   (source)
  • 9, K. 271) was not composed until he was twenty-one: by that time Mozart had already been composing concertos for ten years.†   (source)
  • But, writes the psychologist Michael Howe in his book Genius Explained, by the standards of mature composers, Mozart's early works are not outstanding.†   (source)
  • When the director announced that Sofia would be playing Mozart's Piano Sonata No. i, there was some muttering and a shifting of chairs.†   (source)
  • The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually "developed late," since he didn't produce his greatest work until he had been composing for more than twenty years.†   (source)
  • After drumming his fingers on the armrest of his chair, the Count rose and recommenced his pacing while humming Mozart's Piano Sonata No. i in C major.†   (source)
  • She was knowledgeable about music and art, and at work, the recordings of Mozart or Beethoven were always flooding out of her office into the chaos of the newsroom.†   (source)
  • The orchestra claimed that Conant's "shortness of breath was overhearable" in her performance of the famous trombone solo in Mozart's Requiem, even though the guest conductor of those performances had singled out Conant for praise.†   (source)
  • Ronnie was so enveloped in misery, it took a second for her to recognize Mozart's Sonata no. 16 in C Major.†   (source)
  • Surely it must be the nurturing—the Baby Mozart tapes, the church sermons, the museum trips, the French lessons, the bargaining and hugging and quarreling and punishing that, in toto, constitute the act of parenting.†   (source)
  • How could you hear a composition from Mozart's childhood and not feel sure that he had been drawing on several lifetimes' worth of experience?†   (source)
  • She'd found some Mozart on Graces radio and though it crackled, it helped to banish a little of the loneliness that had crept upon her.†   (source)
  • I think I look at bas-ketball the way you look at roses or Tradd looks at Mozart or Commerce looks at his ships.†   (source)
  • She could hear the tinny sound of the Mozart spilling from Grace's earphones and she found a rhythm in the music and worked to it, manipulating the wrist now.†   (source)
  • "Mozart" was the reason she gave.†   (source)
  • A string quartet, penguinesque in their tuxedoes and correct as finger bowls, played Mozart and Bach in the living room.†   (source)
  • Her eyes left mine and traveled up the brick, ficus-covered walls to the window, through which the bright, lovely petals of Mozart dropped into the garden.†   (source)
  • For several weeks a bleating, blurting, fogged version of Mozart's Horn Concerto No. i stumbled through the closed door of his room hour after hour, haltingly, relentlessly, till Red began cursing under his breath; but Abby patted Red's hand and said, "Oh, now, it could be worse.†   (source)
  • Then, ever the cordial, impeccably mannered host, Tim winked at me, discoursed on Mozart, congratulated the kids on their knowledge of music, and passed the peanuts and cheese.†   (source)
  • When by chance Sophie came to live in the same building as Wanda and Jozef, it had been Bach and Buxtehude, Mozart and Rameau who had glued together their friendship.†   (source)
  • But unknown to herself, she must have been open and receptive to the mysteriously therapeutic powers of W. A. Mozart, M.D., for the very first phrases of the music—the great Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major—caused her to shiver all over with uncomplicated delight.†   (source)
  • One was the larghetto from the B-flat major piano concerto of Mozart—the last he wrote—and I had been with Sophie many times when she played it, stretched out on the bed with one arm flung over her eyes as the slow, sweet, tragic measures flooded the room.†   (source)
  • ; Sophie on the mossy shore of some imaginary pond or pool deep within the woods beyond "Five Elms' " spring fields, her lithe restored body glorious and long-legged in a Lastex bathing suit, our grinning elf of a first-born perched on her knee; that hideous gunshot swarming in my ear; sunsets, abandoned love-crazed midnights, magnanimous dawns, vanished children, triumph, grief, Mozart, rain, September green, repose, death.†   (source)
  • Buoyed up by Nathan's passionate assurance, I scribbled away like a fiend, constantly lulled by the knowledge that when the fatigue of my labors overtook me I could almost always find Sophie and Nathan, singly or together, somewhere nearby ready to share a confidence, a worry, a joke, a memory, Mozart, a sandwich, coffee, beer.†   (source)
  • Yet she never heard the piece again, for like everything else, the Sinfonia Concertante and Mozart, and the plaintive sweet dialogue between violin and viola, and the flutes, the strings, the dark-throated horns were all blown away on the war's wind in a Poland so barren, so smothered with evil and destruction that the very notion of music was a ludicrous excrescence.†   (source)
  • —the Beethoven or the Mozart being to his ears only "tuning up".†   (source)
  • Chang, by the way, was telling me that your favorite Western composer is Mozart.†   (source)
  • I heard Mozart's "Violets" and Schubert's "Again thou fillest brake and vale" quite distinctly.†   (source)
  • Mozart has an austere elegance which we find very satisfying.†   (source)
  • Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.†   (source)
  • He had a melancholy and hopeless air; and Mozart said: "Look, there's Brahms.†   (source)
  • And if I deny your right, Mozart, to interfere with the Steppenwolf, and to meddle in his destiny?†   (source)
  • Then the door of the box opened and in came Mozart.†   (source)
  • All-knowing and all-mocking rang Mozart's soundless laughter.†   (source)
  • The golden trail was blazed and I was reminded of the eternal, and of Mozart, and the stars.†   (source)
  • "Too thickly orchestrated, too much material wasted," Mozart said with a nod.†   (source)
  • I am a beast, Mozart, a stupid, angry beast, sick and rotten.†   (source)
  • But Mozart did not live to be eighty-two.†   (source)
  • Mozart was leaning over the front of the box.†   (source)
  • Mozart laughed aloud when he saw my long face.†   (source)
  • "Then," said Mozart calmly, "I should invite you to smoke another of my charming cigarettes."†   (source)
  • I caught hold of Mozart by the pigtail and off he flew.†   (source)
  • Don't overstrain yourself," laughed Mozart, in frightful mockery.†   (source)
  • Mozart looked at me with intolerable mockery.†   (source)
  • The music of Mozart belongs there and the poetry of your great poets.†   (source)
  • When I came to myself again, Mozart was sitting beside me as before.†   (source)
  • I have nothing to say to your putting Mozart and Haydn and Valencia on what levels you please.†   (source)
  • "My God," I cried in horror, "what are you doing, Mozart?†   (source)
  • I understood Mozart, and somewhere behind me I heard his ghastly laughter.†   (source)
  • Was it Mozart or the business people, Mozart or the average man?†   (source)
  • I turned about, frozen through with the blessing of this laughter, and there came Mozart.†   (source)
  • For while Jane Austen breaks from melody to melody as Mozart from song to song, to read this writing was like being out at sea in an open boat.†   (source)
  • …against this instrumental background, a much more than human voice began to warble; now throaty, now from the head, now hollow as a flute, now charged with yearning harmonics, it effortlessly passed from Gaspard's Forster's low record on the very frontiers of musical tone to a trilled bat-note high above the highest C to which (in 1770, at the Ducal opera of Parma, and to the astonishment of Mozart) Lucrezia Ajugari, alone of all the singers in history, once piercingly gave utterance.†   (source)
  • For myself, as you know, I prefer Mozart…… " Not till the tea bowls were removed and the servant had been finally dismissed did Conway venture to recall the unanswered question.†   (source)
  • Her playing, as indeed her whole behavior, was exquisitely formal, and her choice lay always among the more patterned compositions--those of Bach, Corelli, Scarlatti, and occasionally Mozart.†   (source)
  • Chang answered all his questions with complete candour up to a point; the lamas, he explained, held Western music in high esteem, particularly that of Mozart; they had a collection of all the great European compositions, and some were skilled performers on various instruments.†   (source)
  • When he sat reading in the library, or playing Mozart in the music room, he often felt the invasion of a deep spiritual emotion, as if Shangri-La were indeed a living essence, distilled from the magic of the ages and miraculously preserved against time and death.†   (source)
  • Then to my surprise, he asked, "You must have a strong objection, then, to the Magic Flute of Mozart?"†   (source)
  • But I am thinking now of your favorite of whom you have talked to me sometimes, and read me, too, some of his letters, of Mozart.†   (source)
  • And as he spoke and conjured up a cigarette from his waistcoat pocket and offered it me, he was suddenly Mozart no longer.†   (source)
  • There you will find your Goethe again and Novalis and Mozart, and I my saints, Christopher, Philip of Neri and all.†   (source)
  • Yes, with Mozart and the immortals.†   (source)
  • A bitter-sharp and steel-bright icy gaiety coursed through me and a desire to laugh as shrilly and wildly and unearthly as Mozart had done.†   (source)
  • "Granted," I said coolly, "all the same it won't do to put Mozart and the latest fox trot on the same level.†   (source)
  • Mozart laughed his noiseless laughter.†   (source)
  • When he worships his favorites among the immortals, Mozart, perchance, he always looks at him in the long run through bourgeois eyes.†   (source)
  • Mozart, perhaps, will still be played in a hundred years and Valencia in two will be played no more—we can well leave that, I think, in God's hands.†   (source)
  • "You see," said Mozart, "it goes all right without the saxophone—though to be sure, I shouldn't wish to tread on the toes of that famous instrument."†   (source)
  • And Goethe's face was rosy and youthful, and he laughed; and now he resembled Mozart like a brother, now Schubert, and the star on his breast was composed entirely of wild flowers.†   (source)
  • If I had had a magic wand at this moment I should have conjured up a small and charming Louis Seize music room where a few musicians would have played me two or three pieces of Handel and Mozart.†   (source)
  • There was to be sure a beauty, one and indivisible, small and select, that seemed to me, with Mozart at the top, to be above all dispute and doubt, but where was the limit?†   (source)
  • And if you still think it worth your while we can philosophize together and argue and talk about music and Mozart and Gluck and Plato and Goethe to your heart's content.†   (source)
  • Compared with Bach and Mozart and real music it was, naturally, a miserable affair; but so was all our art, all our thought, all our makeshift culture in comparison with real culture.†   (source)
  • He had loved Erica and Maria, and had been Hermine's friend, and shot down motorcars, and slept with the sleek Chinese, and encountered Mozart and Goethe, and made sundry holes in the web of time and rents in reality's disguise, though it held him a prisoner still.†   (source)
  • The late Herr Haller, gifted writer, student of Mozart and Goethe, author of essays upon the metaphysics of art, upon genius and tragedy and humanity, the melancholy hermit in a cell encumbered with books, was given over bit by bit to self-criticism and at every point was found wanting.†   (source)
  • He had heard Mozart laugh.†   (source)
  • As I reflected, passages of Mozart's Cassations, of Bach's Well-tempered Clavier came to my mind and it seemed to me that all through this music there was the radiance of this cool starry brightness and the quivering of this clearness of ether.†   (source)
  • O Mozart!†   (source)
  • His tendency is to explain Mozart's perfected being, just as a schoolmaster would, as a supreme and special gift rather than as the outcome of his immense powers of surrender and suffering, of his indifference to the ideals of the bourgeois, and of his patience under that last extremity of loneliness which rarefies the atmosphere of the bourgeois world to an ice-cold ether, around those who suffer to become men, that loneliness of the Garden of Gethsemane.†   (source)
  • Our whole civilization was a cemetery where Jesus Christ and Socrates, Mozart and Haydn, Dante and Goethe were but the indecipherable names on moldering stones; and the mourners who stood round affecting a pretence of sorrow would give much to believe in these inscriptions which once were holy, or at least to utter one heart-felt word of grief and despair about this world that is no more.†   (source)
  • Must this be, Mozart?†   (source)
  • Mozart laughed.†   (source)
  • There were those, however, who loved precisely the wolf in him, the free, the savage, the untamable, the dangerous and strong, and these found it peculiarly disappointing and deplorable when suddenly the wild and wicked wolf was also a man, and had hankerings after goodness and refinement, and wanted to hear Mozart, to read poetry and to cherish human ideals.†   (source)
  • In the drawing-room Lucy was tinkling at a Mozart Sonata.†   (source)
  • Mozart would be delighted if he were still here; but he moped and went to heaven.†   (source)
  • Mr. Beebe's eyes rested on Windy Corner, where Lucy sat, practising Mozart.†   (source)
  • When he returned for it he heard, to his relief and surprise, the tinkling of a Mozart Sonata.†   (source)
  • He stepped into the drawing-room, where Lucy was still attentively pursuing the Sonatas of Mozart.†   (source)
  • Ecod, he saws away at Mozart and Handel and the rest of the big-wigs like a thorough workman.†   (source)
  • Katya pulled out Mozart's Sonata-Fantasia in C minor.†   (source)
  • "We all know what Mozart is," said the marquis; "our impressions don't date from this evening.†   (source)
  • She copied and arranged this from Mozart's Requiem."†   (source)
  • Mozart is youth, freshness, brilliancy, facility—a little too great facility, perhaps.†   (source)
  • But the ideas stirred in him by Mozart's music had no reference to Katya.†   (source)
  • 'I will play you Mozart, if you like, which will only make you weep; but my Don Juan, Christine, burns; and yet he is not struck by fire from Heaven.'†   (source)
  • She seemed not so much to be issuing an invitation as to be asking favour, and to want the Princess's opinion of the Mozart quintet just though it had been a dish invented by a new cook, whose talent it was most important that an epicure should come to judge.†   (source)
  • She fed him sections of the "Fetes Galantes" before he was ten; at eleven he could talk glibly, if rather reminiscently, of Brahms and Mozart and Beethoven.†   (source)
  • His liking for Mozart's music brought him sometimes to an opera or a concert: these were the only dissipations of his life.†   (source)
  • She had often told me of Mozart's operas and Meyerbeer's, and I could remember hearing her sing, years ago, certain melodies of Verdi's.†   (source)
  • …then drew herself up and, chilling her expression still further, perhaps because she was still uneasy about the Prince's health, said to her cousin: "Oriane," (at once Mme. des Laumes looked with amused astonishment towards an invisible third, whom she seemed to call to witness that she had never authorised Mme. de Gallardon to use her Christian name) "I should be so pleased if you would look in, just for a minute, to-morrow evening, to hear a quintet, with the clarinet, by Mozart.†   (source)
  • At the wave of the statue's hand the great chords roll out again but this time Mozart's music gets grotesquely adulterated with Gounod's.†   (source)
  • There they have great racecourses, and also concert rooms where they play the classical compositions of his Excellency's friend Mozart.†   (source)
  • After Moliere comes the artist-enchanter, the master of masters, Mozart, who reveals the hero's spirit in magical harmonies, elfin tones, and elate darting rhythms as of summer lightning made audible.†   (source)
  • Octavius I take over unaltered from Mozart; and I hereby authorize any actor who impersonates him, to sing "Dalla sua pace" (if he can) at any convenient moment during the representation.†   (source)
  • Don Juan himself is almost ascetic in his desire to avoid that misunderstanding; and so my attempt to bring him up to date by launching him as a modern Englishman into a modern English environment has produced a figure superficially quite unlike the hero of Mozart.†   (source)
  • Ever since, as a boy, I first breathed the air of the transcendental regions at a performance of Mozart's Zauberflote, I have been proof against the garish splendors and alcoholic excitements of the ordinary stage combinations of Tappertitian romance with the police intelligence.†   (source)
  • Now it is all very well for you at the beginning of the XX century to ask me for a Don Juan play; but you will see from the foregoing survey that Don Juan is a full century out of date for you and for me; and if there are millions of less literate people who are still in the eighteenth century, have they not Moliere and Mozart, upon whose art no human hand can improve?†   (source)
  • Goethe's Faust and Mozart's Don Juan were the last words of the XVIII century on the subject; and by the time the polite critics of the XIX century, ignoring William Blake as superficially as the XVIII had ignored Hogarth or the XVII Bunyan, had got past the Dickens-Macaulay Dumas-Guizot stage and the Stendhal-Meredith-Turgenieff stage, and were confronted with philosophic fiction by such pens as Ibsen's and Tolstoy's, Don Juan had changed his sex and become Dona Juana, breaking out of…†   (source)
  • Mozart for me!†   (source)
  • Mozart's is the last of the true Don Juans; for by the time he was of age, his cousin Faust had, in the hands of Goethe, taken his place and carried both his warfare and his reconciliation with the gods far beyond mere lovemaking into politics, high art, schemes for reclaiming new continents from the ocean, and recognition of an eternal womanly principle in the universe.†   (source)
  • Mozart's statue music.†   (source)
  • In the centre of the room was a Roller and Blanchet "baby grand" piano in rosewood, but holding the potentialities of an orchestra in its narrow and sonorous cavity, and groaning beneath the weight of the chefs-d'oeuvre of Beethoven, Weber, Mozart, Haydn, Gretry, and Porpora.†   (source)
  • That is what I like; though I have heard most things—been at the opera in Vienna: Gluck, Mozart, everything of that sort.†   (source)
  • Here it was that Emmy found her delight, and was introduced for the first time to the wonders of Mozart and Cimarosa.†   (source)
  • 'Do you like Mozart?'†   (source)
  • I said, pointing to sheet music by Weber, Rossini, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Meyerbeer, Hérold, Wagner, Auber, Gounod, Victor Massé, and a number of others scattered over a full size piano–organ, which occupied one of the wall panels in this lounge.†   (source)
  • Voice and instrument seemed both living, and threw out with vivid sympathy those strains which the ethereal Mozart first conceived as his own dying requiem.†   (source)
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