* TH» • MA.5 T HP- jj/ \V MU9ICIANJ ^ CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MUSIC Cornell University Library ML 410.M93B82 Mozart, 3 1924 017 093 562 Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924017093562 [...]... Facsimile of a Portion of a Letter written BY Mozart on the Death of his Mother Mozart' s " Zauberflote " Cottage By permission of the Salzburg Mozart facing 84 Museum Portrait of Mozart (Jrom an engraving by C Kohl) 53 in 1793 facing 148 Illustrations PAGE Room in which Mozart was born By permission of the Salzburg Mozart facing 176 Museum Portrait of Mozart, painted at Vienna, 1770, WHEN about... Age facing 210 By permission of the Salzburg Mozart Museum Facsimile of First Page of "Das Veilchen" 226 Portrait of Mozart at the Age of Eleven (^from the original by T Helbling) By permission of the Salzburg Mozart facing 234 Museum Portrait of Constance Mozart nh Weber {from a painting, in 1802, by Hans Hansen) facing 238 By permission of the Salzburg Mozart Museum Biographical It was in the old,... Appendix VI 269 Appendix VII 293 List of Illustrations Salzburg, Birthplace Kreuzberg of Mozart, from the {Photogravure) Frontispiece Portrait of Mozart at Six Years of Age, in a Gala Dress given him by the Empress Maria Theresa By (Photogravure) permission of the Salzburg Mozart facing 8 Museum Portrait of Mozart at the Age of Fourteen {Jrom an engraving by H Adlard of a painting by Battoni)... responsibility by special permission of the administration of the Salzburg Mozart Museum (who reserve all rights of reproIt is duction) that the six pictures referred thereto in the list of illustrations have been allowed to be reproduced for this work Br Birmingham, July 1902 Contents PAGE BIOGRAPHICAL MOZART: THE MUSICIAN i 91 MOZART: THE MAN 228 Appendix I 250 Appendix II 252 Appendix III 253 Appendix... of baptismal names, Chrysostomus-Wolfgangus-Theophilus The parents of this child were Johannes Georg Leopold Mozart, and his wife Anna Maria {nie Pertl, or PertUn) ; the said Mozart being one of the musicians in the service of the ruling The prince-archbishop of Salzburg and its province — Mozart family, so far back as can be traced, belonged to Augsburg 1 ; and J G Leopold's father (Johann Georg,... affairs, upon ing of the elder — — — — the old bookbinder's death ' In which place they appear to have settled at the end of the One, Anton Mozart, artist, is mentioned by P Stetten See "Genealc^cal Table of the Mozart Family," sixteenth century V Appendix I Mozart Leopold, who had early displayed a quick intelligence, along with a special aptitude for music, had fortunately attracted the notice of... original attempts, as before mentioned, and appends the " By following certificate to No i of such compositions Wolfgang Mozart, nth May, 1762." (And it is in this : same book that the youthful Mozart pens his first more important compositions, the Sonatas, published in 1763.) The child Mozart was of an exceedingly affectionate, tender disposition, full of love and respect for his parents and sister "... herein engaged as actors and singers; and this event is notable as the first of Mozart' s apmusic, — — Mozart pearances in public There was a representation of the play on the ist September, and again on the 3rd of the same month; our little chorister would be about and a half years old at this time Naturally enough, the elder Mozart, with two extraordinarily-gifted children to exhibit and not to speak... Paris is reached, a on the i8th November Leopold's account of the party's reception at Versailles — Hagenhauer was at the same time Mozart' s landlord the lessee of the house, No 9 Getreldegasse Here the family Mozart rented an apartment " am dritten Stock " (3rd story) The " Mozart- Museum " ^ has now its location here Louis is Among unfortunately missing lections of this visit is XV sister that of the... archbishopric (the city of Salzburg with become an Austrian "crownland." secularised in and, at the present day, the old its surrounding domain) has Mozart intends carefully Wolfgang's fingering of these minuets, with whatever other necessary musical gymnastic, upon In the " Mozart Museum " at Salzburg, the harpsichord among the relics there preserved, is the identical book containing the minuets in question, . Letter written BY Mozart on the Death of his Mother . 53 Mozart& apos;s " Zauberflote " Cottage . . facing 84 By permission of the Salzburg Mozart Museum Portrait of Mozart (Jrom an engraving in 1793 by. biographical fact, one could not possibly treat Mozart at all now, as their subject, without owing much to the splendid effort of the late Otto Jahn. Jahn, however, was strictly an amateur in music — certainly. Salzburg Mozart Museum Portrait of Mozart at the Age of Fourteen {Jrom an engraving by H. Adlard of a painting by Battoni) facing 36 By permission of the Executors of the late Professor John Ella Facsimile