Mozart

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mozart. First recorded in the 14th century as Middle High German Mozahrt, from motzen (“to roll in filth”); originally used as a given name with the -hart suffix, as a name for dirty or sloppy people.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊtsɑːt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊtsaɹt/

Noun

Mozart (plural Mozarts)

1. By analogy with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical virtuoso.
   • 1933, Sir William Mitchell, The Place of Minds in the World, page 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.

   • 1911, Joseph Lane Hancock, Nature Sketches in Temperate America: A Series of Sketches and Popular Account of Insects, Birds,..., page 103:

     He is a Mozart in the insect world, sending out his strain upon the evening air.

   • a. 1875, 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...

2. By extension, a virtuoso in any field.
   • 2006, Ryan A Nerz, Eat This Book: a year of gorging and glory on the competitive eating circuit, page 67:

     There is a Mozart of competitive eating who is yet to reveal himself.

   • 2001, Victor H. Mair, The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, page 296:

     Li Po is the most musical, most versatile, and most engaging of Chinese poets, a Mozart of words.

   • 2001, Lawrence Grobel, Endangered Species: Writers Talk about Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives:

     Joyce Carol Oates has said, "If there is a Mozart of interviewers, Larry Grobel is that individual."

   • 2001, Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, Surprised by C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante: An Array of Original Discoveries, page 116:

     In contrast, MacDonald's Gibbie is not only a moral prodigy, but also a Mozart of religious sensibility.

   • 1976, Noel Bertram Gerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography, page 86:

     By the same token, Rembrandt resembled Hawthorne, and the architect who had designed Melrose Abbey was a Mozart among architects.

Proper noun

Mozart (plural Mozarts)

1. A surname from German; (music) used specifically of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
   • 2005 September 16, Nicholas Kenyon, “Myth, Muzak and Mozart”, in The Guardian:

     How do we know what we think we know about Mozart? And why is he still the most popular composer of the western classical tradition? He is one of the most written-about, dissected and mythologised composers in the history of western music.

   • 1999, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by Tom Artin, Drawbridge Up: Mathematics—A Cultural Anathema, Natick, MA: A K Peters, page 25:

     Of course, this only raises once more the conundrum why the general public should value gothic cathedrals, Mozart's operas, and Kafka's stories so highly, but not the Method of Infinite Descent or Fourier analysis.

   • 1997, Larimer v. Dayton Hudson Corportation, Appeal no. 97-2127: Brief of the Defendants-Appellees, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, see footnote 6, page 11:

     Individuals who are biologically “young” (whatever that means) have no monopoly on “young” or “fresh” ideas. Thus Mozart can write Eine Kleine Nachtmusik before he is dead at the age of 31, Thomas Jefferson can draft the Declaration of Independence at age 34 and Buchminster Fuller, after reaching the age of 70, can continue to get patents for his inventions.

Derived terms

• Mozartesque (adjective)
• Mozartian (adjective)

 

attributive uses of the proper noun “Mozart”

• Mozart and Liszt
• Mozart ball
• Mozart effect

 

Translations

surname

• Arabic: مُوتْسَارْت (mūtsart), مُوتْسَارْت (mōtsart)
• Armenian: Մոցարտ (Mocʻart)
• Belarusian: Мо́царт (Mócart)
• Bulgarian: Мо́царт (Mócart)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 莫扎特 (zh) (Mòzhātè)

• Georgian: მოცარტი (mocarṭi)
• Greek: Μότσαρτ (el) (Mótsart)
• Hindi: मोत्सार्ट (motsārṭ)
• Japanese: モーツァルト (Mōtsaruto)
• Korean: 모차르트 (Mochareuteu)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Моцарт (Mocart)

  Mongolian: ᠮᠣᠽᠠᠲ (mozat)

• Persian: موتسارت (môtsârt)
• Russian: Мо́царт (ru) m or f (Mócart)
• Thai: โมทซาร์ท
• Ukrainian: Мо́царт (Mócart)

References

• Duden, Familiennamen: Herkunft und Bedeutung (Kolheim)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mozart.

Proper noun

Mozart m or f

1. a surname from German

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoːˌtsaʁt/, /ˈmoːˌtsaː(ɐ̯)t/, /ˈmoːtsɐt/

Proper noun

Mozart m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Mozarts or (with an article) Mozart, feminine genitive Mozart, plural Mozarts)

1. a surname

Declension

Declension of Mozart [masculine // feminine, surname]

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Mozart	(eine)	(die)	Mozart	(die)	Mozarts
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Mozarts, Mozart1	(einer)	(der)	Mozart	(der)	Mozarts
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Mozart	(einer)	(der)	Mozart	(den)	Mozarts
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Mozart	(eine)	(die)	Mozart	(die)	Mozarts

¹With an article.

Further reading

• “Mozart” in Duden online

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoːt͡saːrt]
• Hyphenation: Mo‧zart
• Rhymes: -aːrt

Proper noun

Mozart

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2. Leopold Mozart

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Mozart	Mozartok
accusative	Mozartot	Mozartokat
dative	Mozartnak	Mozartoknak
instrumental	Mozarttal	Mozartokkal
causal-final	Mozartért	Mozartokért
translative	Mozarttá	Mozartokká
terminative	Mozartig	Mozartokig
essive-formal	Mozartként	Mozartokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Mozartban	Mozartokban
superessive	Mozarton	Mozartokon
adessive	Mozartnál	Mozartoknál
illative	Mozartba	Mozartokba
sublative	Mozartra	Mozartokra
allative	Mozarthoz	Mozartokhoz
elative	Mozartból	Mozartokból
delative	Mozartról	Mozartokról
ablative	Mozarttól	Mozartoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	Mozarté	Mozartoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	Mozartéi	Mozartokéi

Possessive forms of Mozart
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Mozartom	Mozartjaim
2nd person sing.	Mozartod	Mozartjaid
3rd person sing.	Mozartja	Mozartjai
1st person plural	Mozartunk	Mozartjaink
2nd person plural	Mozartotok	Mozartjaitok
3rd person plural	Mozartjuk	Mozartjaik

Derived terms

• mozarti

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Mozart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔd.d͡zart/
• Rhymes: -ɔddzart
• Hyphenation: Mò‧zart

Proper noun

Mozart m or f by sense

1. a surname from German

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mozart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.t͡sart/
• Rhymes: -ɔt͡sart
• Syllabification: Mo‧zart

Proper noun

Mozart m pers

1. (music) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Declension

Declension of Mozart

	singular
nominative	Mozart
genitive	Mozarta
dative	Mozartowi
accusative	Mozarta
instrumental	Mozartem
locative	Mozarcie
vocative	Mozarcie

Further reading

• Mozart in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Mozart.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.zaʁ.t͡ʃi/ [ˈmo.zah.t͡ʃi], /ˈmo.zaʁt͡ʃ/ [ˈmo.zaht͡ʃ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.zaʁ.t͡ʃi/ [ˈmo.zah.t͡ʃi], /ˈmo.zaʁt͡ʃ/ [ˈmo.zaht͡ʃ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.zaɾ.t͡ʃi/, /ˈmo.zaɾt͡ʃ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.zaʁ.t͡ʃi/ [ˈmo.zaχ.t͡ʃi], /ˈmo.zaʁt͡ʃ/ [ˈmo.zaχt͡ʃ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.zaɻt͡ʃ/, /ˈmo.zaɻ.t͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.zɐɾt/

Proper noun

Mozart m or f by sense

1. a surname from German

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mozart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /moˈθaɾt/ [moˈθaɾt̪]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /moˈsaɾt/ [moˈsaɾt̪]
• Rhymes: -aɾt
• Syllabification: Mo‧zart

Proper noun

Mozart m or f by sense

1. a surname from German