The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Volume 1
Translated by Grace Wallace
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The opening
1.
Salzburg, 1769.
MY DEAR YOUNG LADY,—
I beg you will pardon the liberty I take in plaguing you with these few lines, but as you said yesterday that there was nothing you could not understand in Latin, and I might write what I chose in that language, I could not resist the bold impulse to write you a few Latin lines. When you have deciphered these, be so good as to send me the answer by one of Hagenauer’s servants, for my messenger cannot wait; remember, you must answer this by a letter.
“Cuperem scire, de qua causa, a quam plurimis adolescentibus ottium usque adeo oestimetur, ut ipsi se nec verbis, nec verberibus ad hoc sinant abduci.”
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About this edition
- The words
- Grace Wallace's English translation, copied word for word.
- Copied from
- Left out
- The source library's header, footer and license
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- A preface, foreword or afterword, in 2 places
- The closing line "END OF VOL. I." and the printed list of letters by date; left out and listed (10 blocks)
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 7 places
- Nohl's comment on the letter and his quotation from Nissen, after the letter's last line