On Dec 5, 2010, at 7:23 AM, Christopher Wilke wrote: > Travel back in time to the gallant era when such things mattered (just be > sure to avoid Mozart, who once broke a shoe because he was stomping along so > forcefully to the music)
Well, no. As intriguing as the thought of Mozart stomping along like Freddie Mercury doing "Fat-bottomed Girls" is, it seemed pretty unlikely, and the truth is quite different. Courtesy of Friedrich Kerst's Mozart: the man and the artist revealed in his own words (1905), page 28: "Reported by Rochlitz: Mozart was rehearsing the Allegro of one of his symphonies in Leipsic [sic]. He worked up such a fit of anger than he stamped his foot and broke one of his shoelaces. His anger fled and he broke into a merry laugh." -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
