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Article: From child to man. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 26, 1991
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ALMOST a year remains before the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death on December 5th. Yet for months the world's promotions industry has been busy marking-and marketing-the event. All is not lost; the mania is not an epidemic: this weekend (January 27th) is the 235th anniversary of the composer's birth, and only Britain's Radio 3 went overboard on it. But throughout the year-grandly proclaimed as "Mozart Year" by some kind of promotional General Will-the world will be in grave danger of suffering from surfeit. It will be more difficult than ever to see the composer as he really was, and is.
Mozart is being promoted all over the world as the bewigged darling of ...