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Focus / Culture - 4 months ago

Mozart in Italy by Jane Glover review – the making of a master

An account of the teenage Mozart’s operatic awakening is packed with humanising detailOf all the stories that are told about Wolfgang Mozart’s visits to Italy, one exceeds all others in fame. It concerns the day in Rome in April 1770 when the 14-year-old Mozart first heard Gregorio Allegri’s Miserer...