Both Uses of
Mozart
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Mozart's twelfth mass: Gloria in that.†
Chpt 5 *
- Wagnerian music, though confessedly grand in its way, was a bit too heavy for Bloom and hard to follow at the first go-off but the music of Mercadante's Huguenots, Meyerbeer's Seven Last Words on the Cross and Mozart's Twelfth Mass he simply revelled in, the Gloria in that being, to his mind, the acme of first class music as such, literally knocking everything else into a cocked hat.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(Mozart as in: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy; widely considered to be one of the masters of the classical style (1756-1791)