by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
W A Mozart to his father
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
Vienna, 9 Jun 1781 Well, Count Arco has managed things to perfection! So that is the way to persuade people, to win them over, to refuse petitions out of congenital stupidity, not to say a word to your master for lack of spirit and love of sycophancy, to keep a man hanging about for four weeks and at last, when he is obliged to present the petition himself, instead of arranging for his admittance, to throw him out and give him a kick in the pants... I wrote three petitions, handed them in five times, and each time had them thrown back at me...and since the Archbishop was planning to leave on the next day, I was quite beside myself with rage and wrote another petition, in which I disclosed to him that I had had a petition in readiness for the past four weeks! With that petition I received my discharge in the most gallant way. So seeing the reasons why I left him no father could be angry with his own son.
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), "W A Mozart to his father", 1968 [voice and guitar], from Letters from Composers, no. 2. [ sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-12-16
Line count: 17
Word count: 175