English
wikipedia|Mozart (disambiguation)
Noun
en-noun
- By analogy with w:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical virtuoso.
#*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...
- By extension, a virtuoso in any field.
#*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.
Proper noun
Mozart
- A surname.
- Specifically, w:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Translations
Japanese: ������ (M�tsaruto)
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