... understand, an intimate friend of Karl Mozart, and is m IMB— ton of two valuable manuscripts of th« immortal Mozart, als* a Leopold Mozart, his father, and a very successful portrait in oil of Constanz, Mozart's wife. ' iSignnr poornesses also letters ...

... discovered here, ?? bears on its flyleaf a few words written bv Mozart's father, according to whice i- came fromr London in 1764. It s a tbin oblong octavo volume, tbe 42 itavs of wbich Mozart, then a boy of eight. cevere; from beginning to end with the ...

... persistence with which virtuosi lay violent hands on his organ works. The Mozart Sonata in D major, although almost a household favourite, is rarely heard in the con- cert-room. Mo-zart's music, it would appear, is too obvious for the modern pianist, who, ...

... was in all respects, and bearing also somewhat of e a special character. It was partly in commemo- d ration of the birth of Mozart, an event which dates back to the 27th January, 1756. There ewas thus an exact coincidence in the day of . the month, hlat ...

... of the prelude on Satur- day would for tbat reasoan be of great service. The first performance hero of the arrangement of Mozart's fantasia for two pianos by Grieg was a matter of very special interest to musi. cians on Saturday, and it is well that there ...

... -Queen's- Rooms may be-take.-asrfai examples -of the- change- hich took place ir quartet writing between the time when in 1782 Mozart wrote the first *C1 the six string quartets I dedicated to Haydn, . and- Beethoven is 1S06 wrote the last of the- tree famous- ...

... c eard saying aier stand Mozart's Wiege, NV t Mozart's cradle stood here. Near by one finds M to a grand piano used by Mozart, similar in size M sh and construction to what appears in the famous re to picture of the Mozart family at practice. ax on ...

... annoy me.' Talking of his age on this same evening he told me that he was born eight weeks after the death of Mozart (1702). 'Now vou spual of Mozart. maestro,' said I, 'I must ?? you what my brother, an accomplished nusmician, says iii a letter-I received ...

... peiformattem. ir 'The opening piece was. Mozart's grand sonata ol in B flat major, for pianoforte and- violin, - e marked No. 15 in the programme; in tdchel's t Verzeichriss it bounts s No. '42 of the 45 com- P positions Mozart wrote for these instruments. sl ...

... sections. n Mr Philip E. Halistead, who -was solo pianist. a-nlayed Mozart's Fantasia in C minor and Q T Beethoven's Sonata, op. 27. No. 1 in E flat' a ?? IHalstead alvways plays Mozart well. Many 10 of the Diane compositions of the master are rl severely ...

... the higher class, and acknowledged that he had been guilty of the murder. HOW MOZART WON HIS WAk.ER.-Tha following anecdote is related in the Mbmoires d'mn M3Tiuiieai:-Mozart and Haydn being at a party, the former laid a wager of six bottles of champagne ...

... manners ofselect company. Permit me to, relate my experience of a dress night at the Prince of Wales on Saturday last, when Mozart's immortal Don Giovanni' wae given. Occupying a front seat in the boxes, I had the hon-: ,,our to ,be surrounded- by a cirele ...