Three new Mozart letters in Salzburg
The Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg presents important new acquisitions, including Mozart's last letter to his father from April 1787
At the beginning of 2020, three letters from the Mozart family found their way to Salzburg. Due to the coronavirus, only one of these documents, a letter from Mozart to Constanze from 1789, could be presented online on Good Friday. The second document, a letter from the first trip to Italy from Bologna dated July 28, 1770, is a detailed letter from Leopold Mozart to his wife Anna Maria, who remained in Salzburg, with a short postscript from Wolfgang in Italian to his sister Nannerl.
According to the Mozarteum, however, the composer's last surviving letter to his father, who died in Salzburg a few weeks later on May 28, 1787, is of outstanding importance. Although the text of the letter had been known for a long time, the original was inaccessible for more than 90 years and there were not even any recordings of it. It is now clear for the first time that Mozart added Masonic symbols to his letter
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