In the canon
A Life in Letters
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Form
- Form Letters
- Year
- Year 2006
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 600
In Paris in the summer of 1778, hours after his mother died in their lodgings, Mozart, twenty-two, wrote two letters in a single night: one to a family friend in Salzburg, begging him to break the news to Leopold, and one to Leopold himself, saying only that she was gravely ill. That flinch, and the truth he managed days later, is the whole man.
I REJOICE in my heart that you were so well amused at the sledging party you write to me about
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