Talk:Mozart

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. —RuakhTALK 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)