Title: Interesting snippets, helpful annotations
Product review: This is a great little book. It has many of Mozart's most familiar quotes, as well as some less familiar ones.The compiler and translator usually gives the source and background of each quote, which makes the book more valuable than if it were merely a collection of things Mozart wrote or said.Here are a few of my favourites:The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music is time [i.e. rhythm]Above us is a violinist, below us another, next door a singing teacher who gives lessons, and in the last room opposite ours, a hautboyist. [oboist] Merry conditions for composing! You get so many ideas!I have spared neither care nor labour to produce something excellent for Prague. Moreover it is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.
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