Mozart

noun

1. 1

   By analogy with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical virtuoso.

   One child is a Mozart with a flying start, while another foots it, and makes little way; but the course is the same, being set by the object.

   He is a Mozart in the insect world, sending out his strain upon the evening air.

   [W]e can understand how a father who is a good musician may have a son who is a Mozart—a genius in music...

2. 2

   By extension, a virtuoso in any field.

   There is a Mozart of competitive eating who is yet to reveal himself.

   Li Po is the most musical, most versatile, and most engaging of Chinese poets, a Mozart of words.

   Joyce Carol Oates has said, "If there is a Mozart of interviewers, Larry Grobel is that individual."

   In contrast, MacDonald's Gibbie is not only a moral prodigy, but also a Mozart of religious sensibility.

proper noun

1. 1

   A surname from German; (music) used specifically of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

   How do we know what we think we know about Mozart? And why is he still the most popular composer of the western classical tradition? He is one of the most written-about, dissected and mythologised composers in the history of western music.

   Of course, this only raises once more the conundrum why the general public should value gothic cathedrals, Mozart's operas, and Kafka's stories so highly, but not the Method of Infinite Descent or Fourier analysis.

   Individuals who are biologically “young” (whatever that means) have no monopoly on “young” or “fresh” ideas. Thus Mozart can write Eine Kleine Nachtmusik before he is dead at the age of 31, Thomas Jefferson can draft the Declaration of Independence at age 34 and Buchminster Fuller, after reaching the age of 70, can continue to get patents for his inventions.

2. 2

   A locality in the Oberon council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

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plural

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