... composer displayed his love of music. Concerning Mozart's childhood there is no more reliable document than a letter which the court trumpeter, Job. Andr. Schachtner, wrote soon after Mozart's death to Marianne Mozart. Schachtner died in 1795, after having filled ...

... THE LIFE OF MOZART.* WE should not be surprised if the French Life of Mozart written by M. Victor Wilder, the well-known litterateur, and published a few weeks ago, were found to be upon the whole the most satisfactory biographical record of the great ...

... recognition 'of . the influence of Mozart in shaping the tendency of music. He was the maker of an epoch. The Serenade which Dr. Ilatif brought forward on this occasion is one of the works of a fruitful year of Mozart's life, namely 1779. Scored for two ...

... to the performance of Mozart's Twelfth Mass, with orchestral accompaniment. The Mass in question appears to be accepted by the Uddingaton Association, with the simple faith of the suburbs, as indisputably the composition of Mozart, but this is a point ...

... speaks of Mozart's con- sciousuess of his power andC his desire to keep his impulses under controL No musician hiA greater gifta than he, and none had more everence-for his teachers, a lesson which is not devoid of point in these days. Mozart's dramatic ...

... Indeed, it is scarcely worth while to perform this opera at all unless lirst-rate alses appear ill it, for the lovers of Mozart have been spoilel ill this respect. Such spleldidl vocalists have repre- sented the chief personages in, this lovely an1ti ...

... of sentiment. The concert was nominally divided into two parts, the first of which consisted solely of the productions of Mozart, whose early demise places a black mark against December 5th in musical calendars. The sym- phony distinguished among its ...

... by great composers and dramatists. Thus in Vienna a Mozart cycle has been commenced, and this has been welcomed both by leading critics and by the public. Commending the pro- duction of the Mozart series as a set-off and corrective to the Nibeliung ...

... with Mozart's lovely musie added, and everybody is very well satisfied when the curtain tlls upon the happy united lovers. It was thought when the ,Scrop is was first produced to be a wonderful effort in the way of inetrementatiOn, istid Mozart was asid ...

... than driveLling. Mozart: a Study of Artistic Nationality, is one of the most able papers in this month's issue. The pitiful stoty of the great composer's life is thus told Germany having proved hopeless, the father agreed to let Mozart try his fortunes ...

... Almost the whole of the opera-saving the recitatives-was thus given, and it saye a great deal for the abiding popu- larity of Mozart's music, that even in this guise of undress the work attracted an enormous audience. It would perhaps not be quite fair too ...

... story familiar to all of us from Moliere's play and Mozart's opera. The characters and some of the details of the plot, however, have been considerably modified in the later versions. Thus in Mozart's Don Giovanni nothing is known of a shipwreck, ...