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Article: Encore for Mozart: Austria's hills are alive with the sound of music as Vienna and Salzburg remember the wonder boy. (article concludes on page 108)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
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- March 1, 1991
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ENCORE FOR MOZART
"You know that I am immersed in music, that I am busy with it all day--speculating, studying, considering," Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his father. Throughout 1991, the two Austrian cities in which Mozart's music is rooted will immerse themselves in Mozart's astounding astounding achievement of 626 works--all written by age 35. Salzburg, where he was born, and Vienna, where he spent his 10 last and most productive years, will hold musical events to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the composer's death.
Musicians will perform all of Mozart's string quartets and all of his piano sonatas in the Gand Gallery of Vienna's 1,500-room ...