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Article: Key notes on Mozart.(Television Program Review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 25, 2006
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Byline: PETER PATERSON
In Search Of Mozart (Ch5)
THE excellent, three part bluffers' guide In Search Of Mozart concluded last night with a useful set of footnotes that will allow you to challenge a number of misconceptions about the great composer, since he's bound often to be discussed in your presence during this 250th anniversary year of his birth.
So whenever anyone at a dinner party asserts, 'What a shame, that bastard Salieri had Mozart poisoned out of sheer jealousy for his genius,' you can swiftly pop in with an assurance that he died not from foul play, but of rheumatic fever and kidney failure.
And you can argue loftily that ...