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Mozart

Definition: Mozart

Mozart

Noun

1. Prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy (1756-1791).

2. The music of Mozart; "the concert was mostly Mozart".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Mozart" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)


Synonym: Mozart

Synonym: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Mozart

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)


Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mozart."

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Crosswords: Mozart

English words defined with "Mozart": Artur Schnabel, Austrian capitalcapital of AustriaMozartean, MozartianSalzburg, SchnabelVienna. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mozart

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Three rifles, supplies for a month, and Mozart. (Out of Africa; writing credit: Isak Dinesen; Kurt Luedtke)

Okay, when you look at a piano you see Mozart, right? (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

You know, I'm certain that's what Mozart had in mind when he wrote The Marriage of Figaro. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

I heard you met Herr Mozart. (Amadeus; writing credit: Peter Shaffer;)

What do you think of Mr. Mozart, Exeter? (This Island Earth; writing credit: Raymond F. Jones; Franklin Coen)

Lyrics

You loved Mozart and you'd speak of your loved ones (Foolish Games; performing artist: Jewel)

And go kart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart see if it was safe outside (Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen); performing artist: MANFRED MANN)

Movie/TV Titles

Mozart in Prag - Don Giovanni 67 (1968)

The New York Philharmonic in Venice: The Ageless Mozart (1959)

What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street (1956)

Mozart (1955)

Unsterblicher Mozart (1954)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mozart

DomainTitle

Books

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Baby Mozart (reference)

  • Miracle of Mozart - ABCs (reference)

  • Mozart - Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) / Bohm, Gruberova, Grist (reference)

  • Concert at Saint-Severin - Mozart Mass in C Major / Pergolesi Stabat Mater (reference)

  • Mozart - The Magic Flute / Ostman, Biel, Dahlberg, Drottningholm Court Theatre (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  • The Mozart Effect - Music for Babies - Playtime to Sleepytime (reference)

  • Mozart - Overtures ~ Don Giovanni · Figaro · Così · Magic Flute · Abduction · Idomeneo and many others (reference)

  • Afflatus Quintet: Mozart (reference)

  • Mozart Anniversary (1956) (reference)

  • Mozart TV (Arrangement Fraser) (reference)

    (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mozart

Illustrations:
Mozart

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Computer Images:
Mozart

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Photo Album: Mozart

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Salzburg. Statue of Mozart. Credit: Library of Congress.

W.A. Mozart. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Mozart (40th N.Y.) and The Scott Life Guard (38th N.Y.) taking possession of the Red Redoubt nr. Yorktown, Sunday, 6.A.M. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Mozart".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
A characteristic early Mozart piano work.A short minuet excerpt typical of a Mozart piece using counterpoint.
An excerpt typical of a Mozart piano sonata.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Mozart

AuthorQuotation

Tom Lehrer

It is a sobering thought, for instance, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mozart

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Austria

We tend to think of Austria in terms of skiing, the opera, and Mozart. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mozart

"Mozart" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mozart" is used about 1,206 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%1,2066,433

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Mozart

Expressions using "Mozart": mozart night Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Mozart": mozart-an, Mozart-ausgabe, mozart-connection, mozart-czerny, mozart-loving, mozart-year.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mozart

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mozart

2,233

mozart magic flute

19

wolfgang amadeus mozart

269

life of mozart

17

mozart effect

114

mozart symphony

17

mozart requiem

113

mozart a biografia

17

mozart baby

101

mozart leopold

17

mozart biography

101

key mozart requiem

16

mozart opera

78

efecto mozart

15

mozart picture

71

free mozart music sheet

15

wolfgang mozart

70

mozart ok

14

mozart music

51

a mozart festival

14

mozart mp3

43

hotel mozart

14

amadeus mozart

36

mozart cd

12

mozart midi

35

mozart history

12

biografia de mozart

27

mozart don giovanni

12

wolfgang amadeus mozart biography

26

mozart tab

12

festival mozart vermont

23

mozart project

12

cafe mozart

21

hotel mozart rome

11

mostly mozart

21

fan mozart opera tutte

11

mozart sheet music

20

w.a mozart

11

mason mozart

20

mozart composition

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mozart

Language Translations for "Mozart"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

mozartstraße (Mozart Street). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

モーゼル連発銃 (fashion, Mauser rifle, mobile ham, mobile home, mobile house, modal, mode, mode line, mode-line, moment, momentum, moped, morning, morning after, morning call, morning coat, morning cup, morning dress, morning service, motel, motor, motor home, motor hotel, motor pool, motor race, motor show, motor sports, motorbike, motorboat, motorcar, motorcycle, motorist, motorization, mourning dress, wake-up call). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

モーツアルト , モーツァルト . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ozartmay

   

Romanian

  

serata muzicalã consacratã a lui mozart (mozart night). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Mozart

Misspellings

"Mozart" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cozart, Fozard, Mezzadri, Mivart, Modart, Mojar, Mojzer, Momart, Monaru, Monzur, Mozer, mozrt, Mozza, mozzery. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mozart

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-m-o-r-t-z"

-1 letter: amort, matzo.

-2 letters: atom, mart, moat, mora, mort, rato, roam, rota, taro, tora, tram, tzar.

-3 letters: arm, art, azo, mar, mat, moa, mor, mot, oar, oat, ora, ort, ram, rat, rom, rot, tam, tao, tar, tom, tor, zoa.

-4 letters: am, ar, at, ma, mo, om, or, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-m-o-r-t-z"
 

+1 letter: tzardom.

 

+2 letters: amortize, atomizer, tzardoms.

 

+3 letters: amortized, amortizes, aromatize, atomizers, rhizomata.

 

+4 letters: amortizing, aromatized, aromatizes, dogmatizer.

 

+5 letters: achromatize, amortizable, aromatizing, democratize, dogmatizers, immortalize, rhizomatous, romanticize, spermatozoa, temporalize, tetrazolium, unamortized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mozart


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 7A 61 72 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ---    --..    .-    .-.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01111010 01100001 01110010 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#122 &#97 &#114 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 007A 0061 0072 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

478192678486

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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