Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus ( 1756 – 91 ),Austrian composer. He visited London with his parents and sister when he was 8: he was received three times by George III , and was later systematically ‘tested’ by Barrington , whose ‘Account of a Very Remarkable Young Musician’ appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 1770 . The first two Mozart symphonies were written in Ebury Street (then Ebury Row), and before he left London in July 1765 he composed and presented to the British Museum his first vocal work, the unaccompanied motet ‘God is our refuge’. Mozart never came to England again, nor did he set any more music to English words. He certainly knew some Shakespeare , but does not seem to have considered him as an operatic source until the end of his life, when he is said to have accepted a libretto based on The Tempest by F. H. von Einsiedel , with revisions by F....
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