I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it! ~ Arnold Schönberg
This boy will throw us all into the shade. ~Johann Adolf Hasse, on Mozart, aged 11
The past is never, as our jargon implies, a fixed quantity; it is in movement...Mozart, for his contemporaries, was not the serene classic, the apostle of measure and perfection that so many of his nineteenth century admirers, and even some today, have liked to conjure up. On the contrary, he was a painter of intense and even sombre canvasses, of large scope and vast design. ~Roger Sessions
This boy will throw us all into the shade. ~Johann Adolf Hasse, on Mozart, aged 11
The past is never, as our jargon implies, a fixed quantity; it is in movement...Mozart, for his contemporaries, was not the serene classic, the apostle of measure and perfection that so many of his nineteenth century admirers, and even some today, have liked to conjure up. On the contrary, he was a painter of intense and even sombre canvasses, of large scope and vast design. ~Roger Sessions
