Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Berühmte Zitate
„Ich will meine Frau glücklich machen, und nicht mein Glück durch sie machen.“
Brief an seinen Vater, 1782, über seine Liebesheirat mit Constanze Weber, zitiert in Focus "Dem Genie auf der Spur
Zitate über Liebe von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
„Wie ich Mannheim liebe, so liebt auch Mannheim mich.“
Brief an den Vater vom 12. November 1778, http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/briefe/letter.php?mid=1068&cat=
Brief an seine Frau, "Berlin den 23:t Maÿ 1789", http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/briefe/letter.php?mid=1672&cat=
Brief an seine Frau, 1789, zitiert auf www. potsdam. de (Stand 7/07)
Brief an den Vater vom 29. Mai 1778, http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/briefe/letter.php?mid=1015&cat=
Zitate über Musik von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
„Das Notwendigste und das Härteste und die Hauptsache in der Musik ist das Tempo.“
Briefe, an den Vater, 1777
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Zitate und Sprüche
„komponirt ist schon alles – aber geschrieben noch nicht.“
Brief an seinen Vater, "Mon trés cher Pére!", "Munic ce 30 decembre 1780", während der Arbeit an Idomeneo, http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/briefe/letter.php?mid=1139&cat=
„Der Geschmack des Todes ist auf meiner Zunge, ich fühle etwas, das nicht von dieser Welt ist.“
Letzte Worte am 5. Dezember 1791
Letzte Worte
Brief an den Vater Leopold Mozart, "Vienne ce 12 de Juillet 1783", http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/briefe/letter.php?mid=1327&cat=
„Die orgl ist doch in meinen augen und ohren der könig aller instrumenten.“
Brief an den Vater, Augsburg, den 17. Octbr. 1777 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=9TtBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA313&dq=könig, books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=au8HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA67&dq=könig
„Mein vatterland hat allzeit den ersten anspruch auf mich.“
Brief an den Vater vom 24. November 1781, http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/briefe/letter.php?mid=1210&cat=
Brief an seinen Vater, 18. August 1782 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=fffhIGXIrb8C&pg=PA375&dq=Vaterland
Variante: "Will mich Deutschland, mein geliebtes Vaterland, worauf ich (wie Sie wissen) stolz bin, nicht aufnehmen, so muß in Gottes Namen Frankreich oder England wieder um einen geschickten Deutschen mehr reich werden,- und das zur Schande der deutschen Nation."
Brief an seinen Vater, "Manheim den 7ten februar 1778", http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/briefe/letter.php?mid=983&cat=, http://www.zeno.org/nid/20007764634
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Zitate auf Englisch
True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius. - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, entry in Mozart's souvenir album (1787-04-11) from Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon [Harper-Collins, 1966, ISBN 0-060-92692-9], p. 312.
Misattributed
As spoken to Michael Kelly, from Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the King's Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, including a period of nearly half a century; with Original Anecdotes of many distinguished Personnages, Political, Literary, and Musical (London, Henry Colburn, 1826; digitized 2006), 2nd ed., vol. I (p. 225) http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00439352&id=ph3XEMzGt5YC&pg=RA2-PA225&lpg=RA2-PA225&dq=%22Melody+is+the+essence+of+music%22&hl=en
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
Unsourced in Musician's Little Book of Wisdom (1996) by Scott E. Power, Quote 416.
Misattributed
Letter as published in The Letters of Mozart & His Family (1938) translated and edited by Emily Anderson, p. 1114.
Letter to Leopold Mozart (Mannheim, 2 February 1778), from The letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1769-1791, translated, from the collection of Ludwig Nohl, by Lady [Grace] Wallace (Oxford University Press, 1865, digitized 2006) vol. I, # 91 (p. 164) http://books.google.com/books?vid=0SGwLiCNxu7qZ5ch&id=KEgBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22The+letters+of+Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart,+1769-1791%22&hl=en#PRA1-PA164,M1
Letter to Leopold Mozart (11 September 1778), from Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by Georg Knepler (1991), trans. J. Bradford Robinson [Cambridge University Press, 1994, ], p. 12.
Variante: A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed if he always remains in the same place.
Letter to Leopold Mozart (3 July 1778), from The letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1769-1791, translated, from the collection of Ludwig Nohl, by Lady [Grace] Wallace (Oxford University Press, 1865, digitized 2006) vol. I, # 107 (p. 218) http://books.google.com/books?vid=0SGwLiCNxu7qZ5ch&id=KEgBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22The+letters+of+Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart,+1769-1791%22#PRA1-PA218,M1
From a letter now regarded as a forgery by Johann Friedrich Rochlitz http://www.aproposmozart.com/Stafford%20--%20Mozart%20and%20genius.rev.ref.pdf, http://www.mozartforum.com/Lore/article.php?id=108, http://www.mozartforum.com/Lore/article.php?id=106
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Kontext: When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer — say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep — it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.
Spoken on his deathbed to his sister-in-law, Sophie Weber (5 December 1791), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)
Variante: The taste of death is on my tongue, I feel something that is not from this world (Der Geschmack des Todes ist auf meiner Zunge, ich fühle etwas, das nicht von dieser Welt ist).
Letter to Leopold Mozart (Paris, 29 April 1778), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)
“My fatherland has always the first claim on me.”
Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 November 1781), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906).
Spoken in Prague, 1787, to conductor Kucharz, who led the rehearsals for Don Giovanni, from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906).
“As I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me.”
Letter to Leopold Mozart, (Mannheim, 12 November 1778), from Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, ed. Robert Spaethling [W.W. Norton, 2000, ISBN 0-393-04719-9], p. 193.
Letter by Mozart, as quoted in a journal entry (12 December 1856) The Journal of Eugene Delacroix as translated by Walter Pach (1937), p. 521. The quote is not found in any authentic letter by Mozart.
"Will mich Deutschland, mein geliebtes Vaterland, worauf ich (wie Sie wissen) stolz bin, nicht aufnehmen, so muß in Gottes Namen Frankreich oder England wieder um einen geschickten Deutschen mehr reich werden,- und das zur Schande der deutschen Nation."
Letter to Leopold Mozart (Vienna, 17 August 1782), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906).
"Sie wird das nothwendigste und härteste und die hauptsache in der Musique niemahlen bekommen, nämlich das tempo, weil sie sich vom jugend auf völlig befliessen hat, nicht auf den tact zu spiellen."
Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 October 1777), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/wamma11.txt
Letter to Leopold Mozart (4 April 1787), from The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas by Andrew Steptoe [Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-198-16221-9], p. 84.
in a letter to his father, 1782
Quelle: Letter to his sister (Milan, 26 January 1770), from Contradictory Quotations, Longman Group Ltd., 1983. Rendered as "as the sows piss" in Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, trans. Hans Mersmann, Dover Publications, 1972 (originally 1928)
From a letter now regarded as a forgery by Johann Friedrich Rochlitz http://www.aproposmozart.com/Stafford%20--%20Mozart%20and%20genius.rev.ref.pdf, http://www.mozartforum.com/Lore/article.php?id=108, http://www.mozartforum.com/Lore/article.php?id=106
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