Talk:Mozart

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Mozart

Third sense. --Connel MacKenzie 13:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm, no but:

Ryan A Nerz, Eat This Book: a year of gorging and glory on the competitive eating circuit (2006) p. 67:

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

Victor H. Mair, The Columbia History of Chinese Literature (2001) p. 296:

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

Lawrence Grobel, Endangered Species: Writers Talk about Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives (2001}:

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

Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, Surprised by C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante: An Array of Original Discoveries (2001) p. 116:

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

Noel Bertram Gerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography (1976) p. 86:

By the same token, Rembrandt resembled Hawthorne, and the architect who had designed Melrose Abbey was a Mozart among architects.

Sir William Mitchell, The Place of Minds in the World (1933) p. 142:

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.

Joseph Lane Hancock, Nature Sketches in Temperate America: A Series of Sketches and Popular Account of Insects, Birds,... (1911) p. 103:

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (1875) p. 446:

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

From the above, it appears that "Mozart" is synonymous with "virtuoso" in any field. bd2412 T 14:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, as you would expect from someone using Mozart metaphorically. Not sure if it's necessary or desired to elucidate metaphors. Maybe we need to ask the Mozart among wiktionarians?--Halliburton Shill 04:44, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

If I were to point to a child and say, "that child is a Mozart!", I think the typical response would be, "at what?" If I were to say someone is an Einstein or a Napoleon or an Attila the Hun, I wouldn't have to specify, but I think with a Mozart I would. bd2412 T 04:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

RFV failed in given sense. Thank you for those cites, bd2412; it was really quite news to me that there are "Mozarts" at things besides music, and I've edited/restructured the article accordingly. —Ruakh_TALK 23:27, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

What's the point?

I don't see the point in translating a name. At least, translate all the Mozart's names, Amadeus/Theophile.

If you're writing a Chinese or Arabic book about him, you need to know how to write it in their script: they don't use the A-Z alphabet. Equinox ◑ 18:01, 6 February 2020 (UTC)