Lange, Mozart, 1783
The greatest composer who ever lived, Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was born on this day in 1756.
What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream. It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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