Saint Cecilia’s Feast Day | Mozart's Children

“For one moment in the history of music all opposites were reconciled; all tensions resolved; that luminous moment was Mozart” (Phil Goulding)
“We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man” (Albert Einstein)
“I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall remain so until my last breath” (Ludwig van Beethoven)
“If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity” (Johannes Brahms)
“The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts” (Richard Wagner)
“Mozart is the greatest composer of all. Beethoven created his music, but the music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it – that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed” (Albert Einstein)
“Mozart’s joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do” (Andre Gide)
“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. Hoffmann)
“A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
“Mozart has the classic purity of light and the red ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal piaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.” (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
"Mozart is the musical Christ. Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music. I find consolation and rest in Mozart's music, wherein he gives expression to that joy of life which was part of his sane and wholesome temperament" (Pyotr Ilyici Tchaikovsky)
"A light, bright, fine day this will remain throughout my whole life. As from afar, the magic notes of Mozart's music still gently haunt me. A world that has produced a Mozart is a world worth saving. What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!" (Franz Schubert)
Mozart in Lacrimosa... On the steps of air that reach to a heavenly height, the German vocalizations of Divinity... (Claudiu Iordache)
‎"The Mozartian legacy, in brief, is as good an excuse for mankind's existence as we shall ever encounter and is perhaps, after all, a still small hope for our ultimate survival." (H.C. Robbins Landon)
“Ten million views. The human race is slowly making me believe in them again...” (online comment on Mozart’s Symphony 40 in G minor)
... Mozart had simply written down music already finished in his head. And music finished as no music has ever finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and the structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at an absolute beauty… (Peter Shaffer - 'Amadeus')
"Whenever I despair about the human race I listen to music like this and it gives me hope. No species that can produce Mozart can be all bad." (online comment on Mozart's 'Le Nozze di Figaro')
“There are three things in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet and Don Giovanni” (Gustave Flaubert)
"Mozart’s music is on the one hand so accessible, so beautiful and so apparently simple that it can be grasped and enjoyed on its first hearing. But at the same time it is so deep, so profound, so perfect that one can spend a lifetime in it and continue to be fascinated with it, even if it’s the hundreth time you’ve performed it…" (James Conlon)
"Mozart has reached the boundary gate of music and leaped over it, leaving behind the old masters and moderns, and posterity itself" (A. Hyatt King)
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Saint Cecilia’s Feast Day

Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of the musicians and her Feast Day is celebrated on November 22. Born in 2nd Century Rome, the story says she heard heavenly music in her heart when she was married, and at the end of her short life, as she lay dying a martyr’s death, she praised God, singing to Him. It is the reason for which Christian Churches celebrate her as the patroness of musicians and Church music. John Dryden and Alexander Pope, Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel and Benjamin Britten have dedicated music and poems to Saint Cecilia, and their works were presented in musical concerts and festivals held on her Feast Day.

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November 22, 2011
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