Mozart; the Story of His Life As Man And Artist According to Authentic Documents & Other Sources
The book Mozart; the Story of His Life As Man And Artist According to Authentic Documents & Other Sources was written by author Wilder, Victor Van, 1835-1892 Here you can read free online of Mozart; the Story of His Life As Man And Artist According to Authentic Documents & Other Sources book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Mozart; the Story of His Life As Man And Artist According to Authentic Documents & Other Sources a good or bad book?
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75 by a humorous turn of language he had been surnamed frimo uomo; he v/as the titular lover, the suitor ex officio. His person was sacred, the smallest exasperation would have been considered an outrage, and if he condescended to endure for a moment either a parent's refusal, or a rival's anger, it followed that he must at least remain master of the situation, and make his exit with a laurel and myrtle wreath encircling his brow. "It was the rule in Italy," wrote the President de Brosses, " ne...ver to allow the stage to be sullied by the murder of one of the princi- pals, and the most atrocious events in the drama would not lead to such a deed. You may kill the subordinate actors as often as you like, but the life of the virtuoso is inviolable."* These sopranos were as capricious as children. This one would have a plume, five feet in length ; another insisted on making his entrance on horse- back ; a third preferred to be seen descending a mountain, again, a fifth, the famous Marchesi, claimed to sing his last solo in a sombre prison, his feet in irons, and his arms weighted with chains.f Having sung their cavatina they returned to the consideration of their own import- ance; they left the stage and retired to a corner of the theatre to suck an orange, or to sip a glass of wine, leav- ing their interlocutors to shift for themselves.
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