Organist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music

Classical period

1756–1791

"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."

"The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity."

🇬🇧Ralph Vaughan Williams

Music

1872–1958

"The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation."

🇺🇸Sidney Lanier

Literature

1842–1881

"The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West."

🇺🇸Walter Raymond Spalding

Music

1865–1962

"It speaks to our feelings and imaginations, as it were by suggestion; reaching for this very reason depths of our being quite beyond the power of mere words."

Felix Mendelssohn

Music

Romantic music

1809–1847

"A prophet such as we could use again today, strong, zealous, angry and gloomy in opposition to the leaders, the masses, indeed the whole world."

🇦🇹Joe Zawinul

Music

1932–2007

"I ain’t scared of Beethoven or nobody when it comes to composing."

🇩🇪Johann Sebastian Bach

Music

Baroque music

1685–1750

"I have this to say about Bach's works: Listen, play, love, revere — and keep your trap shut."

🇬🇧George Frideric Handel

Music

Baroque music

1685–1759

"Whether I was in my body or out of my body I know not. God knows it!"

Antonín Dvořák

Music

Romantic music

1841–1904

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression – at least, not in the beginning – and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap."

🇫🇷Gabriel Fauré

Music

Romantic music

1845–1924

"Elliot, Jr., Gilbert . "Gabriel Fauré and His Songs". Harvard Musical Review. Volume 1, Number 10. pp. 10 and 25-27."

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Music

Baroque music

1683–1784

"In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f* ."

🇬🇧Charles Burney

Music

1726–1814

"The umbrage given to Cuzzoni by her coming hither, proves that as Turkish monarchs can bear no brother near the throne, an aspiring sister is equally obnoxious to a theatrical Queen."

🇬🇧Leopold Stokowski

Music

1882–1977

"I understand you are doing "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." I would love to do that for you. I will do it for nothing."