Mozart, the story of his life as a man and artist : according to authentic documents & other sources . Mozart and His Wife, Constance (nee Weber), with facsimile antogiaphs. Mozart—p. 170. Mozart: The Man and the Artist. Ijj ject was abandoned and the alterations were simplylimited to a few unimportant touches, made for the benefitof a company of amateurs, who had undertaken to mountthe work in Prince Auerspergs reception rooms, in Vienna. Such as it is, in spite of so many superb pages and pas-sages of real beauty, it is doubtful whether now-a-daysthe score would obtain a reception worthy of
Mozart, the story of his life as a man and artist : according to authentic documents & other sources . Mozart and His Wife, Constance (nee Weber), with facsimile antogiaphs. Mozart—p. 170. Mozart: The Man and the Artist. Ijj ject was abandoned and the alterations were simplylimited to a few unimportant touches, made for the benefitof a company of amateurs, who had undertaken to mountthe work in Prince Auerspergs reception rooms, in Vienna. Such as it is, in spite of so many superb pages and pas-sages of real beauty, it is doubtful whether now-a-daysthe score would obtain a reception worthy of the greatname of Mozart. It would be necessary, in order to re-concile it to our modern ideas and taste, to find an expertwho would undertake, skilfully and reverently, to makecertain cuts and to interpolate a few numbers borrowedfrom works composed by the maestro at the same periodand in the same style. And it would be an excellent op-portunity for our purists to write letters to the papers onthe subject of profanity and sacrilegiousness. The manu-script of Idomeneo was sold by Mozarts widow to
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