Family Party
‘THE Mozart party consisted of Leopold Mozart, the father, Mrs, Mozart, his wife, Nannerl, a little maiden of 12, and Wolfgang, a young boy of eight. In Paris, they had often been carried to Court in
three sedan-chairs-but we do not hear of this happening in London. Buckingham Palace was a smaller, homelier building than the present one, and it suited well the homely life of
George ili, and his Queen, It was not in the least like Versailles, or any palace the Mozarts knew. It was all so unpretending and so intimate. They found the King there, and his brother, the Queen and her brother, and the two Princes; a little family party. For three hours they made music, and Wolfgang was kept hard at it. They placed all the music they could find before him, all of which he read off with the greatest ease; he played the King’s organ; he accompanied the Queen in a song; and finding the bass part of a Handel air lying about, he proceeded to improvise a melody upon it which took away all that remained of the royal breath-("They All Went to London," 2YA, May 29).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 156, 19 June 1942, Page 3
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197Family Party New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 156, 19 June 1942, Page 3
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