Happy Birthday, Wolfgang!

[flyboy 28]

Yes, today is Mozart's 250th birthday. That's a loooooot of candles.

[C]

Happy Birthday (in a non-living sense) to one of the greatest composers that ever lived...

[cspyro21]

I can just imagine a wrinkly old Mozart blowing out the candles.....  ;D

Happy birthday!

[C]

[quote]I can just imagine a wrinkly old Mozart blowing out the candles.....

[flyboy 28]

What the hell is that thing, Charlie?

[C]

What the hell is that thing, Charlie?

According to google images it's a "very old man"

[flyboy 28]

Hm. Whatever.

[bbstackerf]

Looks Japanese in origin.

Motzart is the best. Beethoven a close second. Although being blind was a pretty tough hill to surmount.

keni

[WebbPA]

Beethoven went deaf, not blind.

[BFMF]

Wasn't it Bach that went blind?

[WebbPA]

Maybe on his deathbed.  You must be thinking of John Milton.

Beethoven's 5th symphony has been interpreted as the composer's acceptance of deafness as his fate.

[H]

Wasn't it Bach that went blind?

Johann was a Bach but Beethoven wouldn't hear it.

[Theis]

Johann was a Bach but Beethoven wouldn't hear it.

WHAT??

I CAN SEE YOUR LIPS IS MOVING, BUT I CANT HEAR YOU!

[Ijineda]

Whole Austria is celebrating the "Mozart-Year", especially in Salzburg (his town of birth) and Vienna, where he composed most of his important works and where he also died 1792.

An interesting fact though: Mozart was not Austrian (as many Austrians claim), he was German.

Here in Vienna its a madness, the only remaining house where he lived just opened yesterday for a 2-day free visit, but the queues are enorme!!! I planned to get there but the estimated waiting time is about four hours...with - 10

[WebbPA]

Requiem
Don Giovanni
Piano Converto #21
Eine Kleine Nachtmusick
Magic Flute