Mozart

[ moht-sahrt ]

noun

1. Wolf·gang A·ma·de·us [woolf, -gang am-, uh, -, dey, -, uh, s, vawlf, -gahng ah-mah-, dey, -, oo, s], 1756–91, Austrian composer.

Mozart

/ ˈməʊtsɑːt /

noun

1. MozartWolfgang Amadeus17561791MAustrianMUSIC: composer Wolfgang Amadeus (ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeːʊs). 1756–91, Austrian composer. A child prodigy and prolific genius, his works include operas, such as The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and The Magic Flute (1791), symphonies, concertos for piano, violin, clarinet, and French horn, string quartets and quintets, sonatas, songs, and Masses, such as the unfinished Requiem (1791)

Derived Forms

• Moˈzartean, adjective

Other Words From

• Mo·zarte·an Mo·zarti·an adjective

Example Sentences

An all-strings program featuring pieces by Jessie Montgomery, Mozart, William Grant Still and Tchaikovsky will premiere April 15, as will a concert celebrating 160 years of bilateral relations between Italy and the United States.

From Washington Post

The rehearsal was all about fine-tuning the Finale movement of Mozart’s 40th, the composer’s monumental “great G minor” symphony — which Noseda is turning into a stagewide workout.

From Washington Post

Victorians of all eras have been shocked by Mozart’s letters, and many were suppressed or censored until recently.

From Washington Post

Only toward the end do we feel the huge absence that would be left by Mozart’s death — and Swafford’s evocation of the moment the composer knew he was dying is appropriately terrifying.

From Washington Post

Imagine if Mozart was still alive and you could sit down and talk to him.

From Washington Post

The Mozart Project is not quite the hybrid creature Twice Upon a Time is.

From The Daily Beast

But who needs one more perfectly excellent Mozart biography?

From The Daily Beast

Intrigued by an excerpt from a letter by Mozart included in the text?

From The Daily Beast

You could strip away the bells and whistles and it would still be a perfectly excellent Mozart biography.

From The Daily Beast

Mozart: “The taste of death is upon my lips…I feel something, that is not of this earth.”

From The Daily Beast

The last movement had the infectious gayety that Mozart's things often have, with a magnificent cadenza by himself.

From Project Gutenberg

He had at first some difficulty in deciding whether Soliva showed himself in that opera a plagiarist of Mozart or a genius.

From Project Gutenberg

And why did Chopin regard Mozart as the ideal type, the poet par excellence?

From Project Gutenberg

Control hadn't gotten around to making approved lists of music yet, though you'd surely never hear Mozart in a public place.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a great admirer of Mozart, whose works he constantly recommended to the attention of his old pupils.

From Project Gutenberg