Mozart, Wolfgang
1756-1791 35 years
1756-1791 35 years
Austrian classical music composer, pianist...
considered a child prodigy
married, children
died, with rheumatic fever being most likely cause
considered a child prodigy
married, children
died, with rheumatic fever being most likely cause
| I have heard that whenever anybody came to Mozart, the great composer and musician, he would ask, 'Have you learnt music anywhere else before?' If the man had, then he would ask double fees. If he had not learnt music at all then he would say, 'That is okay. Even half the fee will do.' People were very puzzled because this was illogical – 'When a fresh man comes, who has not known anything about music, you say half the fee, and when somebody who has been working for ten years comes you say double the fee!' Mozart said, 'There is a reason. First I have to clean the slate. That is the harder work. To destroy all that the person is carrying is harder than to teach...' --Osho Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol. 2, ch. 12 |
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