10/06/2013
Mozart the Englishman (BBC 2011)
'I am, you know, an out and out Englishman!'
So declared Mozart
in a letter to an English friend. Mozart visited London when he was 8
on a concert tour, staying for nearly a year, and picked up a liking for
English manners and dress which he retained for the rest of his life. Historian
Sarah Lenton traces Mozart's development as an Englishman, placing it
in the context of his English tour, his English friends and pupils, his
father's passion for England and the impact of Anglomania on 1790s
Viennese culture as a whole.
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