Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . ars the more proba-ble, as it has since been ascertained that Count Waldseck, wishing to be con-sidered a great composer, was in the habit of publishing with slight alterationsthe productions of eminent musicians as his own works, after bribing the realauthors to silence by large sums of money. Mozart died on the 5th of December, 1791
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . ars the more proba-ble, as it has since been ascertained that Count Waldseck, wishing to be con-sidered a great composer, was in the habit of publishing with slight alterationsthe productions of eminent musicians as his own works, after bribing the realauthors to silence by large sums of money. Mozart died on the 5th of December, 1791, before he had completed histhirty-sixth year. With many weaknesses, his character appears to have beensingularly interesting. He was in wit a man, in simplicity a child. Hishealth was always delicate; he was thin and pale, and appeared never to havereached his natural growth. His tenderness and regard for his wife were oithe most touching character. He passionately loved her, and evinced his feel-ings by the most tender and delicate attentions. It was his practice to ride outearly in the morning; and when she was sick, he used to leave a note uponher pillow, folded like a physicians prescription, and containing some littleaffectionate message or ANTONIO CAN OVA. THIS celebrated Venetian sculptor, was horn in 1757, at Possagno, a villagesituated at the foot of the Venetian Alps, and died in 1822, aged sixty-fiveyears. His father and grandfather were sculptors of repute at that time. Bythe death of his father, Antonio became an orphan in the third year of his ai> of his father, he was indebted for the rudiments of his art to hisgrandfather, Pasino, who adopted the excellent method of teaching him e^rlythe familiar use of the implements of sculpture, employing him on the workson which he was himself engaged. Canova, by the recommendation of the patrician Giovanni Falier, who wasembellishing his palace at Asolo, was placed under Torretto, who was one ofthe b
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