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

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

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

Happy birthday!

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

What the hell is that thing, Charlie?

What the hell is that thing, Charlie?

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

Hm. Whatever.

Looks Japanese in origin.

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

keni

Beethoven went deaf, not blind.

Wasn't it Bach that went blind?

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.

Wasn't it Bach that went blind?

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

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

WHAT??

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

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

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