Mozartianadj.n.

1828 E. Holmes Ramble among Musicians Germany 190 This composition (in C minor) is so well divested of all Mozartean reminiscences, so sound in its construction and rich in accompaniment, that it takes the highest rank in modern church music.

1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 272 The combination of playfulness and grace..imparts to ‘Figaro’..a more decided Mozartean character than any other of his works.

1881 Athenæum 19 Feb. 273/1 The composer welds his themes together with absolute Mozartian ease and grace.

1927 D. F. Tovey Heritage of Mus. I. 100 For the most part stiff exercises in the outward forms of Mozart... The stiffness is anything but Mozartean.

1955 Times 14 May 4/5 It was a curious whim that brought a Mozartian body all the way from Germany in order to play Beethoven's Eighth Symphony.

1989 Opera Nov. 1312 Piotr Czajkowski was Jacquino, singing well but with a Mozartian rather than a Beethovenian timbre.

2018 Wall St. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 14 May Rhythmic moves,..winking allusions to the classical repertory and an almost Mozartean fluidity and confidence.

1838 Musical World 17 May 54 After such a triumphant demonstration of the enthusiasm of the Mozartians, there is every inducement [etc.].

1872 Musical Standard 14 Dec. 375/1 The leading themes must be regarded even by admiring Mozarteans as positively poor and common[place.

1917 Musical Courier 22 Feb. 15/1 (heading) Favourite Alice Nielson sings for Mozarteans.

1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era v. 44 Even in the 19th century there were still many..who demanded no more than that of music: they were the ‘Mozartians’, the opponents particularly of Wagner and Liszt.

1975 Daily Tel. 1 May 13/8 Once again the young Jamaican Nerine Barrett proved last night a natural-born Mozartian.

1982 H. Rosenthal My Mad World of Opera xii. 117 I invited several distinguished Mozarteans to contribute.

2012 Weekly Standard (Washington D.C.) 22 Oct. 43 Mozartians—a category that includes nearly everyone who loves serious music—will profit immensely from Christoph Wolff's splendid book.

1896 M. C. Clarke My Long Life 205 I felt, so to say, as if he played Mozart, Mozartianly; Beethoven, Beethovenishly.

1928 Observer 24 June 23 The other three..give the elegant (and in the last movement Mozartianly deep) music an air of special distinction.

1963 Punch 3 Apr. 496/3 Così fan Tutte is..brightly and strongly though not always Mozartianly sung.

2005 R. Taruskin Oxf. Hist. Western Music III. xli. 463 A compendium of folk life and character types expressed (quite Mozarteanly!) through a compendium of national dance rhythms.