1791: Mozart's Last Year

Landon, H. C. Robbins

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“…At this stage of his short life, in terms of financial reward and public recognition, Mozart's career had been in decline since the high point of his European tours as a child prodigy. The vast musical outpourings of his last seven years veil the fact that he was in precarious financial straits, a position only temporarily relieved by a few commissions and by borrowing money from his lodge brother Michael Puchberg (Einstein, 1946;Robbins Landon, 1988). Mozart was now paying the price for professional freedom and independence after he had severed himself from the safe but stultifying small court of the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg in 1781.…”

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“…The audience is led to believe that she is being held captive by a powerful evil demon named Sarastro, but it later transpires that he is a great sage, Ieading a band of initiates who believe in wisdom, reason and brotherhood. The character of Sarastro was thought by some of Mozart's contemporaries (see Chailley, 1972, andRobbins Landon, 1988) to be modelled on Ignaz von Born, the leading Austrian mineralogist and freemason of his day.…”

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“…His output was prodigious and he had a profound influence upon the scientific and intellectual climate of late eighteenth century Europe (see Hofer, 1957;Giese et al, 1984). Whether or not this inspirational figure collaborated directly with Mozart and Schikaneder in the realization of The Magic Flute as some musicologists suggest (see Chailley, 1972;Robbins Landon, 1988) or whether he had an indirect influence as a model or prototype sage for the character of Sarastro (Dent, 1947;Osborne, 1986), is by no means certain. In any case he did not live to see the fruits of his brother freemason's labours as he died in July 1791, only two months before the first performance of The Mizgic Flute and only six months before Mozart himself was dead.…”

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The Magic Flute cast: geological correlations with Mozart

Whittaker

1991

Terra Nova

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The year 1991 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart. His last opera, The Magic Flute, was begun, completed and first performed in the year of his death, 1791. The creation of the opera was closely associated with prominent geologists of the time although the work itself is an alchemical drama, deriving more from Hermetic ‘science’ and magic than from the emerging ‘legitimate’ science of the day.

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The Magic Flute cast: geological correlations with Mozart

Whittaker

1991

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“…A pesar de algunas deudas, sus perspectivas económicas eran promisorias. El éxito de La Flauta Mágica, nuevos encargos, y proyectos como una gira alternada con J. Haydn, hacían suponer un auspicioso futuro 4 .…”

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W.A. Mozart ¿murió de una carditis reumática?

G.¹

2023

Rev chil reumatol

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart murió en Viena el 5 de diciembre de 1791, dos meses antes de cumplir 36 años. Sus restos fueron sepultados con otros cadáveres. El certificado de defunción consignó como causa de muerte “Fiebre miliar,” sin mayores precisiones. Se ha postulado como causa de muerte un envenenamiento, pero no existen evidencias para precisar la naturaleza de su enfermedad, lo que ha dado origen a diversas hipótesis diagnósticas. Por los testimonios disponibles, es razonable postular una carditis por fiebre reumática aguda como causa de muerte.

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Intellectual authority and institutional authority

Collier

1992

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simply by virtue of a superior rationality and do not depend for their impact on the lines of power and influence operating in an institution." The contrastive notion of "institutional authority" refers to the nonintellectual influence exerted by social, political, cultural, historical, legal, literary, educational, religious, and other institutions. The nonintellectual influence of intellectual institutions is a particularly interesting and perplexing subcategory of institutional authority. Law and literature, for example, both aspire (or have aspired) to be institutions in which intellectual authority is the coin of the realm. In literary theory the classic claims to intellectual authority were articulated by Matthew Arnold, who emphasized in an oft-cited essay that criticism, real criticism ... obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the best that is known and thought in the world, irrespectively of practice, politics, and everything of the kind; and to value knowledge and thought as they approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever. ... No other criticism will ever attain any real authority or make any real way towards its end,-the creating a current of true and fresh ideas. ' Arnold went on to give a stirring description of the pure power of compelling ideas (and here he is less frequently quoted): That is what I call living by ideas: when one side of a question has long had your earnest support, when all your feelings are engaged, when you hear all round you no language but one, when your party talks this language like a steam-engine and can imagine no other,-still to be able to think, still to be irresistibly carried, if so it be, by the current of thought to the opposite side of the question .... 6 As intellectual history progresses, Robert Hutchins suggests, "the voices in the Great Conversation tend more and more to speak in the present tense, as if all the authors were contemporaneous with one another, responding directly to each other's thought." 7 In law, a forceful statement of the claims of intellectual authority can be found in the recent U.S. Supreme Court "flag-burning" case, in which the Court's newest member declared in an agonized concurrence: I write ... with a keen sense that this case, like others before us from time to time, exacts its peirsonal toll.... 4. Stanley Fish, Fishv. Fiss, 36 Stan. L. Rev. 1325,1342 (1984) (summarizing Fiss and Toulmin). In the interest of full disclosure it should perhaps be noted that my interpretation of this article by Fish-and indeed the article itself-may be influenced by my having edited it for the Stanford Law Review in 1984.

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1791: Mozart's Last Year

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The Magic Flute cast: geological correlations with Mozart

The Magic Flute cast: geological correlations with Mozart

W.A. Mozart ¿murió de una carditis reumática?

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