Mozartとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈməʊtsɑːt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmoʊtsɑɹt/

名詞

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.

固有名詞

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.

派生語

参照

• Duden, Familiennamen: Herkunft und Bedeutung (Kolheim)