Mozart’s music was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.
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Yes, if he is to have true music in him.
Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form.
And I think that you must have observed again and again what a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
The use of music for intellectual enjoyment in leisure.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Uncomplicated joy and sorrow is not matter for philosophy, but rather for the simpler kinds of poetry and music.
Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason.
Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
