Show I 1 jealousy almost forced mozart to go into exile mozart the sunn funniest sunniest sun niest lesto most lovable and possibly the greatest of all operatic composers was almost driven into exile by jealousies that retarded the recognition of his genius before his death and reduced him to want in spite of his tremendous popularity says aubrey boyd in the richmond times dispatch mozart was born in salzburg austria in 1756 when he was six years old his memory for music and his delicate car capable of detecting and remembering a difference of half a quarter of a tone so impressed his father that he was taken with his little sister marianne to perform on the piano before the elector at munich and before the emperor and court at vienna the nobility went wild over the children and especially over the little magician as mozart was called by an emperor who proved less benevolent when the magician grew up the young prodigies were then hustled away on a triumphant tour through paris london the hague vienna and the musical centers of italy during some ten years of travel iel while still in his early teens young mozart composed a number of symphonies and an opera which was repeated to full houses twenty times in milan amid cries of aviva il maestro haase who was then composing ruggerio prophetically said this boy will cause us all to be forgotten such popularity however arouses jealousies from the time he was seventeen Moz arts efforts to obtain a court appointment were constantly blocked either by the parsimony of patrons or the opposition of envious rivals back in salzburg at the age of twenty gnep one he found himself in an intolerable situation |