Identifier: mozartstoryofhis01wild (find matches)
Title: Mozart, the story of his life as a man and artist : according to authentic documents & other sources
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wilder, Victor, 1835-1892 Liebich, Franz, Mrs
Subjects: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
his Gradus ad Parnassum. This was, in reality,a venerable old book of Fux, which Cherubini, in his Treatise on Counterpoint had taken for his guide andmodel; it was used for Wolfgangs studies, as attestedby his copybooks kept in the Mozarteum of Salzburg. Thus after an absence of three years, the young artistreturned to his native country. His triumphal progressthrough France, England, Belgium, Holland and Swit- 48 Mozart: The Man and the Artist. zerland had in no way impaired his simplicity of charac-ter, nor sullied the childish purity of his mind and soul.Flowers and eulogies had been lavished on him; flatter-ing tongues had told him he had no more to learn; heremained modest and unassuming, with his spirit, calmand untroubled. He possessed the humility of the strong,and returned as docile as ever to the ranks of his school-fellows. Work and study were to consolidate his newly-acquired knowledge, and ^w^t him, at the same time, newstrength for the free scope of his dawning genius.
Text Appearing After Image:
Mozart aged seven years in Conrt costnnie pi-esented to him by the P^nipress Maria Theresa. Painter unknown. Original in the Mozarteum at Salzbnrg. This is the earliest Portrait of Mozart. Jaken in Vienna in 1762. ilozart -p. V?. Mozart: The Man and the Artist. 49 CHAPTER V. SALZBURG COMPOSITIONS.—THE MIRAGE OF ITALY.—TRIALSIN VIENNA.—THE FIRST OPERA.—MOZART A RIVAL OFJEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU. THOUGH Wolfgangs time at Salzburg was speciallygiven up to study, yet some of it was devoted tocomposition. It must be remembered that the year1767 witnessed the initial production of his series ofvocal compositions. And the first of these owes its exist-ence to the scepticism evinced by the Archbishop ofSalzburg. This prelate had hitherto not given credenceto the reports of the wonders performed by the son ofhis Kapellmeister; so he resolved to put his genius to adecisive test. He gave Wolfgang the text of an ora-torio, and locked him up with it in one of the rooms ofthe palace. After a fe

Note About Images