"It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." Tom Lehrer.
Mozart lived for 35 years Lehrer did 97
It is possible Lehrer said that before his last day on earth. Sometime around age 37 would make sense.
22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'
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#12Let's hope it is more authentic than the Hitler Diaries[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries
Any time something of popular historical interest like this pops up I think about that.
If you've not read it then Robert Harris's (factual) book about the affair is entertaining, not least because such a broad sweep of dislikeable characters were undone by greed and folly!
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#13Let's hope it is more authentic than the Hitler Diaries[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries
Even inside the tiny niche of the classical music history world, a book of daily exercises - written for some now-obscure student, and owned by a national library - is actually a pretty minor thing.
Very few counterfeiters bother doing nickles and dimes.
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#15Let's hope it is more authentic than the Hitler Diaries[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries
Confiscated during the revolution, kept by the national library. That's a bit different to "forged on schoolbooks with a Bic pen" provenance-wise.
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#16I hope we get to hear his new/old music. That would be amazing
french radio "France Musique" aired it the other day, i don't know if its available outside of france though
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#18> the Duke failed to pay Mozart for his work
You stiffed Mozart!? A curse on your ghost!
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#20Let's hope it is more authentic than the Hitler Diaries[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries
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