The mozartian type of music is illustrated not only in the character of many of its melodies, but also in the use of motivi in what may be called the dramatic portions-the fleet flood upon which the dialogue dances with a light buoyancy that is delightfully refreshing.
"A Second Book of Operas"
Henry Edward Krehbiel
The F minor Fantaisie has hardly the mozartian serenity, but parades a formal beauty-not disfigured by an excess of violence, either personal or patriotic, and its melodies, if restless by melancholy, are of surprising nobility and dramatic grandeur.
"Chopin: The Man and His Music"
James Huneker
Mozart, the greatest of all masters of this art, never dreamt of employing them; and, extensively as they are used in The Ring, they do not enable Wagner to dispense with the mozartian method.
"The Perfect Wagnerite A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring"
George Bernard Shaw