Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Musicians
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Born in Salzburg in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart defined the Classical era with over 800 compositions completed in just 35 years. A prodigy who began composing at five, he produced masterworks across every genre of his time, from the operas The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and The Magic Flute to his final three symphonies and the unfinished Requiem. His music achieves a rare synthesis of structural perfection and emotional depth.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Other Quotes
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer... it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Melody is the essence of music.
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