"In relation to God he is like a child who brings everything to his father: the stones from the street and peculiar sticks and little plants and even once a ladybug; and with him all of these things are melodies, melodies that he brings to God, melodies that he suddenly knows when he is inside of prayer. And when he has finished praying, and he is no longer on his knees and no longer has his hands folded, then he sits there at the piano, or he sings with an incredible childlikeness, and in doing so he no longer has any idea whether he is playing something for God or whether it is God who is using him to play something at once for himself and for Mozart. There is a great conversation between Mozart and God that is the purest prayer, and this entire conversation is nothing but music."
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Adrienne von Speyr, Mozart in Book of All Saints, translated by D.C. Schindler (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2008. .
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 – 1791
Komponist der Wiener Klassik
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