![]() Brahms’s appreciation of Mozart was equally passionate and nostalgic: how wonderful it must have been to be a composer at the time of Mozart, he thought, “when it was easy to write music,” as if Mozart was the great representative of a prelapsarian age, before the exile from paradise. ![]() Bernard Shaw protested acutely that people did not realize how powerful Mozart was because his music was so beautiful. As the century proceeded, both Mozart and Raphael suffered, not from a loss of prestige-that was only too firmly in place-but from a growing disdain among the avant-garde of practicing artists and composers for the established classicism in favor with the academies of art and music. I pay no attention whatever to anybodys praise or blame. Chagall at the Met, Leon Amiel Publisher. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). ![]() ![]() ![]() “The standard coupling of Mozart with another artist was to be Raphael, possibly initiated by the painter Ingres, who idolized both, and Mozart was transformed into an icon of classicism, an emblem of grace and purity. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 5 December 1791) was one of the most influential, popular and prolific composers of the classical period. An image attached to a snuffbox belonging to Mozart, by Joseph Maria Grassi, 1783. ![]()
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