Mozart
noun
Wolfgang Amadeus 1756–91, Austrian composer.
Mozartean
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a word derived from
Mozart.
Example Sentences
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The orchestra had been founded as an outlet to Hollywood studio musicians, and its first music director was the lively Mozartean, Neville Marriner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
And it’s not the sonata’s only jazz-world nod: After a snatch of Mozartean melody in the second movement, Iverson revels in descending licks redolent of the soul jazz tradition, marked “a la Bobby Timmons.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
But her Mozartean role here in “Figaro,” an effervescent farce of disguises, revenge and forgiveness, encompasses neither gut-wrenching pathos like Verdi or opulently emotive drama like Tchaikovsky.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2022
There’s a Mozartean perfection to Matt Porterfield’s first feature, from 2006, a story of adolescents in slow-burn crisis in a Baltimore neighborhood perched between woods and highways.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 18, 2019
In this way she learned the skeleton of the mighty music dramas, and grew up absorbing the torrid music as though it were Mozartean.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
