File:Mozart, the story of his life as a man and artist - according to authentic documents and other sources (1908) (14742429876).jpg

English: Mozart's manuscript for "Deh vieni alla finestra" from act 2 of his opera Don Giovanni; scanning fault (6 systems are missing); the same publication is much better scanned 2 pages later.

Identifier: mozartstoryofhis02wild (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

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Leopold Mozart from trusting his future to his son's care, or because the customary, long-endured yoke of servitude had dulled his longing for liberty and freedom, he preferred to end his days at his post. He therefore contented himself, after he had helped to settle his daughter with her new relations, with asking leave to spend three months with his son.* * And now after her marriage we take leave of Marianne Mozart. Always faithful to the memory of her former studies she continued, in the midst of household cares, to cultivate the art she loved and to interest herself in the career of her brother. After the death of her husband she returned to Salzburg where she lived in easy circumstances up to an advanced age. In 1820 she lost her sight, but even this cruel affliction was powerless to ruffle her equable temper. She always kept that good humour and sprightly character which were family inheritances to the children of Leopold Mozart. She even had the courage to speak jestingly of her infirmity. One day,
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