In
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vienna: the early years
…Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
(
The Abduction from the Seraglio
). (Joseph II currently required that German opera, rather than the traditional Italian, be given at the court theatre.) In the summer of 1781, rumours began to circulate, as far as Salzburg, that Mozart was contemplating marriage with the third of…
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