Mozart the Cat

only true 1820s kids remember the original king of waltz 

This makes me very Straussed

Also one time he was supposed to write a violin and piano duet, and he wrote the violin part, but he didn’t really feel like writing the piano part, or was too lazy etc. When the concert came up (he played the piano while a fiend played the violin) he set up a blank piece of paper (so people would think he was reading music) and improvised. After the concert he wrote it down so it could be published

A fiend

Shoutout to whoever performed that overture with no practice.

Except from what I’ve heard/read he wrote most of his overtures the morning of so he could best use all of the themes he’d written and to fit the tone of the opera after all of the last minute changes had been made. So it was intentional procrastination, but still incredibly impressive. (Correct me if I’m wrong, fizzylimon)

Nah that’s totally true. Not necessarily the morning of, but he always wrote the overtures last and generally after the final dress so that he could capture the mood of the entire work as it stood in its final form. It’s not like he went “OH SHIT I NEED AN OVERTURE” - he was always pondering on it, but it was just the final stone to be set, more or less.

Wolfie, you little shit…

AU in which Schubert survives syphilis and lives a full and happy life and produces hundreds more pages of exquisite music so that I don’t have to sit here crying about how much we lost because he was taken from this earth too soon 

I’ve seen this maybe 17 times and it still gets me.

this is basically how all musicians are

I am in an orchestra and I can confirm 110% this is how we act

Also applies to choir singers. And solists.