Lulli hit himself in the foot while conducting with such strenght that he
got gangrene and died.
There you have an illustration of 17th century comportment.
RT
----- Original Message -----
From: "howard posner" <howardpos...@ca.rr.com>
To: "Lute List" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 11:43 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Karamazov
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."
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