The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people--and that music does not have a better reputation...For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!...A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not--but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes--bad, if he always stays in the same place. If the archbishop would trust me, I would soon make his music famous; that is surely true.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a 18th-century composer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a composer of the Classical period. In his brief life, he completed more than 800 works including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies, concertos, chamber music, opera, and choral music. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society
  • Music — The universal language of melody, rhythm, and harmony

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