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IN THE TOWN 200 YEARS AGO A MUSICAL GENIUS WAS BORN
In Mozart's Salzburg
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It will include the opera, "La Pinta Semplice," which he com- bored at the age of 12, Juring
way, to
Tell you that on the evening of the January my wife was delivered of a boy and, indeed, with success,"
With these casual words,
Dr Paungartner, today's lead. Leopold Mozart, announced ing authority on Mozart, will the birth of a his immortal conduct this beautifully balanced son, Wolfgang, at Salzburg work, first performed in Salz- 200 years ago.
burg at the Archbishop'a rt-- sidence.
might die in Leopold
a visi to Vienna with his father and musical sister to play before the Empress Maria Therean.
The birthplace and cone of today's Festival. himself, but we often conducted his early Messes in the Cathed ral and in Salzburg's other churches.
walls is named, will play again lunta composed for 1 by Mozart's father-the tunes that the citizens of once warned Salzburg of invasions.
Peter's
The chief of these is the
St baroque Church, belonging to the Bene- dictine Abbey.
Perhaps he feared that the
On January 28, the eve of the oy, like his two elder brothers, actual bleenteaury, А formal
infancy, leaving ceremony;
attendex by leading and his wife Marla-
superb Mozart connoisseurs and music- The handsounest couple in
countries, Salzburg” — ajono
their will bo held at the Mozart daughter. Nannerl. Fortunately memorial.
the the boy survived to dazzle
world, so noon after-
musical
wards,
with
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Friday, January 27, marks the actual day, 200 years ago, that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born at No. 9, Getreidegasso, overlooking the city's
small cobbled market place.
Here the Church heard many of his works for the Arzt time. This memorial was erected in
And here Mozart's sister is the Muzartplatz ភ 1843, 1he
Hayden, Torlay the house
buried, us 16 Michael contains Par which marked the death,
other friends of Mozart, Mozart treasures and mementos and nourby house, of
operas though the great composer him composer's widow, who survived from productions of his
by more than 50 years. The in
countries. From the solf has in an unknown pauper's many Blockenspilel bell-tower its windows can be seen the twin grave in Vienna.
of Salzburg Cathedral, chimes were the Best music that spires
Re- heard one of the world's finest the bay Mozart ever
corner of the naissance buildings damaged al stands on the equare. it is attered now to play, the east end during the war. not traditional Austrian and
but music by Mozart himself.
Mozart had bu xent to Salzburg from his malive Augsburg by Benedicting monks who wished hain to study theology in that charnung cultured city. But almost At once, the young man decided to follow law instead, forfelting his small allowance. drow him altogether,
main-
He became a nobleman's valet, while he taught the violin ura pinyod in the orchestro inned by the powerful Prince
Salzburg. Archbishop of wife, Anna Maria, came
tunes
Pauper's Grave
ITERE Mozart's "Coronation
Cloth Maski and Edwin Fischior have been invited to join And, for the first time since 1937, & British orchestra, the Phil harmonia conducted by од Karajan, will be there.
Later this year, in Vienna, a special Mozart programme will be included in the June festival at the State Opera and other theatres. In August the annual Salzburg Festival will present six of his works.
Ambitious Plans
IN Britain, Covent Garden has arranged a special now pro- And here
“Hagenster his
duction of "The Magic Flute," Mass will be played to com-
Mozart's
of allegory
Irce memorate his birth. When 18
This will also be Sears old, Mozart conducted it masonry, ihura himself while his friend staged at the Edinburgh Fest- the Hamburg Stute Hagenauer later Abbot
of the vil by
who chose it to cole- community, celebrated his first Opern,
brate the recent reopening Mans within.
their own opera houso,
of
hoped
opera's
During the surnunez Salzburg Festival while Mozart's greatest
"The Then music opera
Magic Flute" is being played in the open-air Rocky Riding School, one often
Vienna In the evening the Macy will be sung in his
But the most ambitious pro- hoars its notes ringing
ACTORS
honour that morning; it was
State Opera, which always taken ject of all has been announced the clly, while Papageno, the
part in Salzburg festivals, will by a city not well known in the written not for a monarch, but plays his chimes for the coronation of the statue perform his opera "Idomeneo," music bird-catcher,
world Mannheim, in Els on-stage.
of the Virgin Mary in a church which he is said to have pro- West Germany. Here it from At
Dr to present all Mozart's midnight, with candles in the valley beyond Salzburg. ferred above all his others.
who St Gilgen, the charming village placed
Karl Bohm, window
conducted in chronological order. every edge of the Wolfgang welcome the anniversary, a
splendid performances at the Michael Haydn, brother
Yet Lake, not far from Salzburg. trumpet
rebuilt Vienna State Opera, will
even allowing for such farfare
sound the more famous Austrian com- Starting today, a special ten- across the swit Salzach river poser, Joseph Haydn, was the be in charge of the presentation. ambitious plans, only a little of Mozart's music will be played day festival is being held in from the fortress above the city. chief composer at Salzburg in
Su
be Distinguished Mozart sololats this year. In his 35 Mozart
years youth. Salzburg to honour the birth of The "Old Steer" us the ancient Mozart's
such offices fortress never held the highest
08 Wilhelm. Backhaus, composed more than 60D works Into music's must gifted child, their organ built
Many are among tho greatest music ever written; few can be dismissed 08 unworthy of attention.
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TO COMBAT AND COPE WITH THE SPREAD OF DISEASES OF THE MIND!
A City
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LARMED by the wide-
spread incidence of
mental illness throughout
For Mental
By Donald Cameron
Patients
Nagere,
deal with is the "ro-education": of patients dischargedi from psychiatric hospitals, for, Pro- Zousor Nagern added, "It is R tragle fact that these discharged patients cannot normally obtain
the country, Spain is to active support of psychiatrists, Professor Vallejo build a "psychological city" sociologista philosophion, an president of the League of devoted entirely to the thropologists, teachers, and Mental Health, bolleves that employment,***** treatment
prieste in an effort to check the everyone should co-operate in of mental;
He is atíxious, too; to ́sés tha growth of mental illness and to the current campaign, and that it formation of clubs for neurotic patients of various kinds.
study ways and means of el- is more important to prevent minating its causos.
mental illness, or to treat it in patients who have already been
cured. Ita carly stages, than to depl
The city will be one of the weapons used in a The state is being asked to with advanced chronic ouse,
not
establish special boarding and
TRAINING" COURSE,
nation-wide campaign aimed day schools for abnormal chil The Spanish Cortes-or parlia-
only at providing dren and to make provision for mont-is now studying a project Professor Nagara also wanLÉS adequate treatment for children who, when they reach to centralise control of old for to ace the establishment of mental sufferers but at ro- the age at which they must leave the mentally ill so as to assist special coutes of training for -doutorg school, have no place where they provincial governments lacking mental hygienistá moving, wherever possible,
sufficient funda to provide nurays, and social visitor adequate treatment for psycholo whiels at prosent does not exist the causes of psychological can be properly cared for.
in Spain. mical cases...
"The greatest _ _need at pre- The "paychological city" noợ the fact The programme also includes sont," Professor Nagera said, " being planped, will be, built dutie for clinica in every provincial, side Madrid but wlihin onay that there are known to be the foundation of sanatoria and capital for the treatment of reach of the Spanish " capital, 185,000 mentally backward per- "colonica" run on modern lines song in Spain 50,000 of them and the systematic investigation oute casce.
abertations.
The bottont of the problem may be gauged from
MODERN LINES:
and Improvecht, of present-
This
and will havo separato pavillóne
for adults and children, di e in Madrid
day methods of watment in Because, with modern methods of ton contros, parica,
is opecially important variety of clinics and rehabilitat The Spardsh League of Spanish skyluma.
ent, it le pomble to pro- tavený, Mental, Health, ·which operates, Special attentions will be paid troen, smo esntral headquarters is to mentally unbalarious
40 percent of wouts mental events
types
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And how fitting it was the boy, destined to write musie of such perfection, should have been born in one of Europe's most perfect cities, adorned with baroque art and Alpine ecenery.
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