All 13 Uses of
Mozart
in
Man And Superman
- After Moliere comes the artist-enchanter, the master of masters, Mozart, who reveals the hero's spirit in magical harmonies, elfin tones, and elate darting rhythms as of summer lightning made audible.†
Chpt Ded.
- Mozart's is the last of the true Don Juans; for by the time he was of age, his cousin Faust had, in the hands of Goethe, taken his place and carried both his warfare and his reconciliation with the gods far beyond mere lovemaking into politics, high art, schemes for reclaiming new continents from the ocean, and recognition of an eternal womanly principle in the universe.†
Chpt Ded.
- Goethe's Faust and Mozart's Don Juan were the last words of the XVIII century on the subject; and by the time the polite critics of the XIX century, ignoring William Blake as superficially as the XVIII had ignored Hogarth or the XVII Bunyan, had got past the Dickens-Macaulay Dumas-Guizot stage and the Stendhal-Meredith-Turgenieff stage, and were confronted with philosophic fiction by such pens as Ibsen's and Tolstoy's, Don Juan had changed his sex and become Dona Juana, breaking out of…†
Chpt Ded.
- Now it is all very well for you at the beginning of the XX century to ask me for a Don Juan play; but you will see from the foregoing survey that Don Juan is a full century out of date for you and for me; and if there are millions of less literate people who are still in the eighteenth century, have they not Moliere and Mozart, upon whose art no human hand can improve?†
Chpt Ded.
- Don Juan himself is almost ascetic in his desire to avoid that misunderstanding; and so my attempt to bring him up to date by launching him as a modern Englishman into a modern English environment has produced a figure superficially quite unlike the hero of Mozart.†
Chpt Ded.
- Octavius I take over unaltered from Mozart; and I hereby authorize any actor who impersonates him, to sing "Dalla sua pace" (if he can) at any convenient moment during the representation.†
Chpt Ded.
- Ever since, as a boy, I first breathed the air of the transcendental regions at a performance of Mozart's Zauberflote, I have been proof against the garish splendors and alcoholic excitements of the ordinary stage combinations of Tappertitian romance with the police intelligence.†
Chpt Ded.
- Mozart's statue music.†
Chpt 3
- Why don't you learn to sing the splendid music Mozart has written for you?
Chpt 3 *Mozart = one of the most famous composers of classical music (1756-1791)
- At the wave of the statue's hand the great chords roll out again but this time Mozart's music gets grotesquely adulterated with Gounod's.†
Chpt 3
- Mozart would be delighted if he were still here; but he moped and went to heaven.†
Chpt 3
- There they have great racecourses, and also concert rooms where they play the classical compositions of his Excellency's friend Mozart.†
Chpt 3
- Mozart for me!†
Chpt 3
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)