Happy Birthday Wolfie!
…people err who think my art comes easily to me…
It is the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born in Salzburg, Austria (1756). He was a child prodigy. He toured Germany at the age of six, and at seven his father Leopold, a music teacher, took young Wolfgang and his older sister on a three-year tour of Europe’s royal courts. He said, “People err who think my art comes easily to me …” In his 35 years, he composed forty-nine symphonies, forty concertos, and a wide range of other works, including operas such as The Marriage of Figaro (1784) and The Magic Flute (1791). Mozart wrote: “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together make genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
From the Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor
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One fo my favorite movies is Amadeaus…Excellent acting. I think F. Murray Abraham won for best supporting actor.
I love him as a actor. In pretty much anything he has ever been in, but in Amadeus he is deliciously evil