Amadeus Mozart

Today i learned about Amadeus Mozart that . . .

1.There was a song written in the 1630s that was performed only in the Sistine Chapel. The Vatican kept the composition of the piece secret for 150 years until the 14-year-old Mozart listened to the piece two times, transcribed it from memory, and produced the first unauthorized copy of the song.(Source)

2. That Mozart heard a starling at market whistling an unpublished tune he was working on -- he bought the starling to preserve secrecy, recorded the melody it sang in his notebook, and gave it an elaborate funeral when it died three years later.(Source)

3. Maria Anna Mozart, sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was also a talented musician, but once she reached a "marriageable age", her parents would no longer permit her to show her artistic talents.(Source)

4. the Austrian village of "Fucking" is particularly popular with British tourists. A local tour guide said: "The Germans all want to see Mozart's house in Salzburg; the Americans want to see where The Sound of Music was filmed...but for the British, it's all about Fucking."(Source)

5. Adwaita, the turtle, was born before Mozart, before the French Revolution, and his death was announced by CNN. His estimated age was just over 250 years. He died in 2006. (Source)

6. Mozart had a "startling fondness" for poop jokes, which is preserved in his surviving letters.(Source)

7. When Mozart was 8 years old, he was tested by the Royal Society to determine if he was a child or an adult dwarf. They were convinced of his age when, in the middle of playing a piece, he was distracted by a cat running through the room.(Source)

8. Mozart's kids would taunt him by playing incomplete scales on the piano forcing him to rush downstairs and complete them. (Source)

9. Mozart composed a song called "Lick Me in the Ass".(Source)

10. that despite the claims of the play/movie "Amadeus", W.A. Mozart and Antonio Salieri were actually good friends, supportive of each others' work, and there is no evidence that Salieri obstructed Mozart's career other than the fact that Salieri was more established and well known. (Source)

11. After Mozart died, his wife married a Danish diplomat who's head stone reads "here lies the husband of Mozart's widow". (Source)

12. Mozart wrote an intentionally bad piece of music to emulate the style of an incompetent composer. (Source)