Volume 38, Number 14 · August 15, 1991
A Little Mozart Tour
By Robert Craft
Mozart: 'Prodigy of Nature'
an exhibition at The Pierpont Morgan Library May 8–August 4, 1991
Zaubertöne, Mozart in Wien 1781–1791 1990–September 15, 1991
an exhibition at the Künstlerhaus, Vienna December 6,
June 8, New York. 'Mozart: 'Prodigy of Nature,' ' the exhibition at the Morgan Library, is a humbling experience. Some fifty Mozart manuscripts are displayed (and one Beethoven, a copy of Mozart's Quartet KV 387) ranging from four pieces composed at age five to a draft page of the Requiem; fourteen autograph letters, early and late; and programs and documents, including Mozart's marriage contract. John Russell's polished report in The Times begins by remarking that 'great music falls from the air' and 'in almost every case the autograph manuscript of that music is right there beneath our noses…. The thing heard and the thing seen are one.'
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