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Mesmer undertakes to perform this transference. He emerges from behind heavy drapes accompanied by gentle harmonies from a hidden orchestra (a noted patron of music, Mesmer has commissioned an opera, Bastien und Bastienne, from a local prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart). Mesmer then installs up to 30 patients around a tub equipped with magnetic rods for the transfer of the fluid. In recent weeks, he has stopped using magnets and now says he can transfer the fluid through his own hands...
...mother called him Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jr. Why not? He was the second surviving son of a great composer, and it was a name certainly worth preserving. The only problem was that when Mama made the decision, the boy was well along in childhood and already had a name: Franz Xaver. Wolfgang Jr. or just plain Franz? It was a dilemma that plagued the young Mozart most of his life (1791-1844). Having studied with such notables as Hummel and Salieri, he was a talented enough musician to make his piano debut at age 13. Yet Franz was not another...
...IMPRESARIO, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and COX AND BOX, by Sir Arthur Sullivan with a non-Gilbertian librettist whose name escapes me, but whose story reaches its climax when Cox learns that Box does not have a strawberry mark on his ear. "Then you are my long-lost brother!" he cries delightedly. Conducted by Gerald Moshell. Opens tonight at 8:30 in the Cabot Hall Living Room...
...funds as usual, the composer sent a note to his friend Franz Hofdemel, imploring the loan of 100 gulden (about $500 in today's money). As an added persuasion, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart hinted that as a Freemason, he might be helpful in backing Hofdemel's candidacy for the same order. History does not record whether Mozart repaid the loan. But last week the letter, written in 1789, just two years before the composer's death, brought $5,738 at an auction in Cologne-more than ten times the asking price...
Liszt soon rounded up a staggering assortment of creative but deathless friends, among them Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and J.S. Bach. They all seemed to have learned English and appeared eager to use Mrs. Brown to make up for lost composition time. Rosemary laid in a supply of music paper and set to work copying down the carefully considered musical thoughts of history's greatest composers. "Liszt controls my hands for a few bars at a time, and then I write the music down," explains Mrs. Brown. "Chopin tells me the notes at the piano and pushes my hands onto...