... The Childhood of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the son of Leopold Mozart, under-chapelmaster to the Archbishop of Salzburg, was born in that city on the 27th January, 1756. In his father he was fortunate to possess • wise counsellor and friend. but also a ...

... child continued:— They oaU me Master Wolfgang Mozart and you, what is your name ? •• Mine is Marie Antoinette, answered the young lady, with a voice that went to the heart. Alas! the wife that the little Mozart chose so ingenuously was the Archduchess of ...

... that genial alweys manifests itself in childhood. But one swallow maketh not summer. To the precocity of Bach, Handel and Mozart we may the elow development of Wagner, Weber, and Beethoven. The first lessons in music were irksome to Beethoven, and Weber ...

... man so careless about money matters as Mozart was. They began housekeeping on next to nothing, and in six months were in serious difficulties, whilst later on the wife suffered from almost constant illness. Mozart was greatly devoted to her, his playful ...

... work of great difficulty even for an accomplished scholar. Another example of precocity in a different line was the composer Mozart. In his fourth year he played the piano well. In his fifth year he oompmed several pieces. When he was six years old, his ...

... be Gaited in. Nosz.—Mozart and Haydn being at a party, the former laid a wager of six bottles of champagne with the iatter that would not pay at sight a iece of music which ha (blow) would cornpiss. ai:eepted the challenge, and Mozart speedily wrot• down ...

... Handel's And the glory of the Lord, which was given with good effect. The choir also sang the Kyrie and Gloria from Mozart's Twelfth Mass, The heavens are telling , and the Hallelujah Chorus. The chorus numbered over 200 vocalists and instru ...

... strains of music floated on the air, but his last utterance was a demand for laudanum to drown pain and consciousness. . . Mozart's last words were: Let me hear once more those notes so long my solace and delight ; but Haydn, forgetful of his art, cried ...

... a great worshipper of flowers, and often fell into silent reverie in observing them,. He felt happiest in • quiet garden. Mozart gained his inspiration by reading Homer, Dante, Tetrarch ; Verli mud read passages from Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, Osman ...

... of his father as to his motives lie replied, I only wished to see where all Inc fire came from. The following anecdote of Mozart shows that he must have been a born musician. When fourteen years old he hoard in Boma the Miserere of Allegri; and knowing ...

... since the first flea male its appearance. How many of viii have read what Homer wrote about them? What was the ilAtnition of Mozart's twelfth mass? Anil yet I— Two dollars. And I heir only two dollars! Did you have headache? Are you afflicted with giddiness ...

... curtain; the !arca is played With some, • presentiment that they are about to die is the first symptom of approaching death. Mozart wrote his requiem under tbe oonviction that the monument he was erectiug to his genius would prove a monument to his own remains ...