ARTH 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lorenzo Da Ponte, Art Of Europe, Piano
7 May 2020
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Don giovanni, k. 527, act 1, scenes 1-4. In 1785, old leopold came to visit wolfgang and constanze in vienna. He described the daily routine in a letter to his daughter: We never get to bed before one o"clock at night, never rise before nine, dine around two or half past two. There are concerts every day, lessons all the time, composing, and so on. It is impossible to describe the fuss and the noise. In the time i have been here, your brother"s pianoforte has been moved at least twelve times from the house to the theatre or to another house. Leopold had to break off one such letter to home because the masseur or the floor-waxer is dancing around the room and i cannot find a warm corner in the whole flat where i can write . Things indeed must have been confused if one could not tell the floor-waxer from the masseur household.
