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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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. But the last item delighted themmost. Never in my life had I heard such a charivari!^Should this description be considered exaggerated, it issufficient to read the definition of French singing whichGrimm attributes to an Italian composer, giving it at thesame time on his own responsibility : the art which wereverence under the name of chant or vocal music, isshamefully profaned in France; the term is applied to afashion of impelling, with effort, the voice out of thethroat, and breaking it with a convulsive movementagainst the teeth; in our country we should call it scream-ing; it is heard to any extent in our public streets, but ofa truth, never in our theatres.! Finally if this last is not sufficient evidence, I referthe reader to Gretrys Jugement de Midas, a witty andbiting satire in the olden style, which was performed forthe first time in 1778, the year Mozart was in Paris. Or * Quoted by Fetis. ** Curiosites de la musique, pp. 330, 331.t Correspondance litteraire, xv., p. 280.
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Young Mozait holding a roll of music. After the Painting by Pompeo Battoni. Now in the possession of the Nottingham Museum. Mozart-- p. US. Mozart: The Man and the Artist. 129 open Gretrys Memoirs, in which he has preserved m musi-cal notation some fragments of this grotesque and fossil-ised art, accompanied by this instructive piece of advice:Assume with this an almost smiling countenance, andretain it even in solos of a melancholy nature; give asmuch expression as you can to your lower jaw; throw it alittle forward so as to give yourself a slightly contortedair, and you will then sing old French as it was sung inthe days of Rebel and Francoeur. However, in spite of his simple and unassuming life,Mozarts purse was getting rapidly empty, and it wasbecoming more and more necessary to find some m.eansof rehlling it. After many applications he succeeded infinding some pupils, and he taught composition to adaughter of the Due de Guines. The Due played theflute, and his daughter, who was,

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