Reminiscence of Mozart.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 5477, 7 February 1885, Page 3

Reminiscence of Mozart.

If tho true artist, as somo cultured critics say, will recoil with horror from the sensational, what must Mozart have felt on his first introduction to the public 1 The pro. gramme of his first performance, drawn up by his father at Frankfort in 1764, has lately been discovered in Germany, and according to the "Gartonlauba runs thus: —"My daughter twelve years old and my eon of seven, tho son being the great Mozart, will execute tho concertos of tho greatest masters on several kinds of pianos, and my boy on the violin likewise. My son will cover the fingorboard of the piano with a cloth and play as if it were not covered. He will ([juess both standing near or at a distance any note, any accord sounded on the piano, ova bell or any other instrument. In conclusion, he will improvise, as long aH desired both on the organ or the piano, in all keys, even the most difficult, as any one may choose. But hia rendering of organ musio differs greatly from that of tjio piano."