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...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born 200 years ago come next Jan. 27, in Salzburg. At seven, he was examined by a scientifically inclined Englishman who published his findings about the "amazing and incredible" boy. But despite early promise Mozart died (at 35) leaving the world largely unappreciative of his 600-odd compositions and his towering stature as composer.-In 1956, practically every musical organization from Valparaiso to Vienna will stage some kind of commemoration, aware that the 20th century cannot produce a genuine allegro...
...Vienna last week, 198 years after the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, met officials of the Austrian and German Mozart societies. Their purpose: to plan bicentenary celebrations...
...said Austrian Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, when he founded the annual Salzburg music festival (with Director Max Reinhardt, Composer Richard Strauss and others) and dedicated it to the memory of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Last week at Salzburg the founders' intention was well fulfilled...
Chronically poverty-stricken Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wanted to be married, decided to compose a light little Singspiel to pay the bills, titled it Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio). To make it popular, he set it in a harem. He filled it with "Turkish style" music and costumes which were fashionable in 18th Century Europe, gave the heroine his future wife's name Constanze. After the Vienna premiere in 1782, Emperor Joseph II said: "Too fine for our ears, my dear Mozart-and much too many notes." Despite the imperial reservation, Die Entf...
...Salzburg, long Austria's wealthiest city, G.I.s had a complaint to make last week. Their favorite movie theater, the Army's "Roxy," had been taken from them. For one month it was once more Festspielhaus for the century-old music festival in honor of Native Son Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...