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Alex Yates · 08-27-2005, 02:49 PM

"You ask my opinion about taking the young Salzburg musician into your service. I do not know where you can place him, since I feel that you do not require a composer or other useless people.....It gives one's service a bad name when such types run around like beggars; besides, he has a large family."

-- Letter from Archduke Ferdinand's mother, upon learning of his interest in Mozart, 1771.

08-27-2005, 02:49 PM	#5 (permalink)
Alex Yates Forte User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 2,405	The dismal opening quote page to this book "You ask my opinion about taking the young Salzburg musician into your service. I do not know where you can place him, since I feel that you do not require a composer or other useless people.....It gives one's service a bad name when such types run around like beggars; besides, he has a large family." -- Letter from Archduke Ferdinand's mother, upon learning of his interest in Mozart, 1771.