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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

This Sinfonia Concertante was the first instance of that wondrous Mozartean shock, through the senses, to the system.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2020

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

The figures seem to move, as in the Kinetoscope, or its forerunner the Wheel of Life: the Mozartean opera, when most dramatic, is a musical Wheel of Life.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.