There was a musical quality to it, a Mozartean magic. From Wordnik.com. [A Tennis Genius] Reference
An eminent Mozartean who did some Wagner at Bayreuth is probably not going to catch flak for any political decision. From Wordnik.com. [Pardon me?] Reference
Though I'm not a big Beethoven fan, there are a few pieces that I love, and this gentle, Mozartean concerto is one of them. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Most people tend to ignore this one, since it seems very Mozartean-classical and inconspicuous compared to the 7th and 9th. From Wordnik.com. [See exhortations at end.] Reference
I could say that it, to a greater or lesser extent, repeated Solti - but Böhm's Mozartean tendencies softened up the music. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Ring] Reference
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Late 14th century Full of make-believe and festivity, this wonderful narrative poem possesses a Mozartean lightness and wit. From Wordnik.com. [Five Best] Reference
For those who want to know more about Richard Wilbur, here's a lovely article from the Harvard Magazine- the author, Craig Lambert, describes Wilbur as having a "Mozartean felicity with verse.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
Is Lestat himself admitting that after the Mozartean "Interview With the Vampire" (1976) it was hard to sit still for the Wagnerian "The Vampire Lestat" (1985) and "The Queen of the Damned" (1988)?. From Wordnik.com. [A 200-Year-Old Problem Drinker] Reference
There followed the Sonata in A, D. 664, even sunnier, with a tinge of Mozartean freshness, though its sunny opening theme mellowed gradually by its return toward the end of the movement, aged into something slightly softer, slightly darker to set the stage for the more somber second movement. From Wordnik.com. [Music review: Emanuel Ax at Strathmore] Reference
Having joined the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra at 22, straight out of Juilliard, and having gone on to win the prestigious Naumburg Competition, Ms. Wincenc was "caught up in all the refinements of Mozartean Classicism, while keeping my foot in the modern door," thanks to the similar interests of St. Paul's music director, Dennis Russell Davies, who brought composers like Olivier Messiaen to work with the orchestra. From Wordnik.com. [Rootin', Flutin' 40th Season] Reference
In these regards it is the most Mozartean of all the composer's operas. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference
No more Mozartean music is in existence, save Mozart's own, than that first act of. From Wordnik.com. [Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians] Reference
The Mozartean method did not permit Gounod to depict these metamorphoses and blendings of feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians] Reference
That Gluck, halfway between the baroque revival and the Mozartean standards, is on a roll is not news. From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
Kinetoscope, or its forerunner the Wheel of Life: the Mozartean opera, when most dramatic, is a musical Wheel of Life. From Wordnik.com. [Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians] Reference
He is so much in his own world -- the Mozartean world -- that he takes it for granted that everyone talks in Kochel numbers. From Wordnik.com. [WNYMedia] Reference
Schubert's Fifth Symphony, though composed in 1816, also has its feet firmly planted in the Mozartean world of the classical period. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Andante proves worthy of any Mozartean kudos, its haunted improvisatory character equally informed by a driven sense of architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
The incursions into minor modes and the wonderful colloquy between piano, oboe, and flute add a piquancy that can only be called Mozartean. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
The dance is set to Mozart's "Sechs Deutsche Tänze," and features several other Mozartean touches - powdered wigs, 18-century undergarments. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
Un-Mozartean flourishes characterized the cadenza, and it didn't help that several persistent magpies squawked through the proceedings just outside the open tent. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
For what should have been innocence and effortless movement and godlike joy, Mozartean coordination and harmony, was full of terrible cries, and convulsive, rending motions, and shrouding sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
To an evenly pulsing gentle accompaniment we hear first the second part of a love-theme (q), then fragments of others, till the point of supernal, Mozartean beauty is touched at “full of grace and loving mildness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Wagner]
The program which will be repeated Saturday and Tuesday nights turned out to be one of the most rewarding since this uncommonly sensitive Mozartean began her exploration of selected Mozart piano concertos with the CSO here in 2004. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
Salieri had been Mozart's enemy; and it is easy to see, when once we rid ourselves of the idea that he was a rudimentary music-dramatist, that in his music he adhered as closely to Mozartean simplicity as his very different genius would permit. From Wordnik.com. [Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians] Reference
Kahane, who replaced Bernard Labadie last month because of a scheduling conflict, has a keen grasp of Mozartean style, in particular the way the composer's rhythmic practice combines with his harmonic language to produce eloquent and sometimes unpredictable drama. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
The opening bars are, of course, ultramodern: they would never have been written had not Wagner written something like them first; but the combination of poignancy and lightness and poise with which the same phrase is delivered and expanded as the theme for the allegro is quite Mozartean, and the same may be said of the semiquaver passage following it. From Wordnik.com. [Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians] Reference
Mozartean Zest Much in Evidence but No Sign of Newly Discovered Works. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Berlin's new secret restaurant scene] Reference
The beauty and shining nobility of Mendelssohn’s works were dismissed as mere prettiness, their polish, grace and emotional expressiveness derided by critics who deemed the music superficial because of the Mozartean facility with which Mendelssohn seemed to invent ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Undeniable Influence] Reference
Give us Mozartean style. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Perlmutter: Doings at Disney Hall: A Tale of Two Orchestras] Reference
Richard Goode is a fantastic Mozartean!. From Wordnik.com. [I Already Bought Mine...] Reference
But I have never heard the term bandied about in so cavalier a manner as a series of conference calls in which several knowledgeable and creative film artists urged me to make the music sound "more classical" or "less classical" in certain spots, which prompted all kinds of grasping follow-up questions that never seemed to clarify the precise "classical" element desired (Mozartean phrasing?. From Wordnik.com. [NewMusicBox] Reference
It was very simple in a Mozartean way. ". From Wordnik.com. [Benny Goodman Rides Again] Reference
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