Has there ever been an attempt to estimate what Mozart's income would have been if he had lived in our materialistic age, one in which a composer of popular musicals could auction a small part of his wine cellar for several million pounds?
Mozart was paid a pittance by his imperial and clerical employers. His deep faith did not seem to have prevented him from expressing contempt in many of his letters for the bigoted "bloated" clerics who treated him like a recalcitrant servant.
One of the reasons why I taught myself German was to be able to read his letters.
Having been a dedicated amateur musician all my life, I increasingly feel that it is Mozart who formed many of my aesthetic values and taught me in purely musical terms what faith in compassion means.
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