Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
Tchaikovsky
A world that has produced a Mozart is a world worth saving. What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!
Schubert
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day!
Rossini
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 life.
E.T.A. Hoffman
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: ‘Chi sa più, meno sa— Who knows most, knows least.
Mozart (spoken to actor Michael Kelly)
I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
Ludwig van Beethoven
