Richard Todd ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>The crudeness that Amadeaus pins on Mozart is based on some dubious
>extrapolations from private letters that he wrote to some of his intimates.
>As far as I've been able to determine, there is no reliable evidence that
>he ever publicly used inappropriate language, that he was ever drunk at a

Really? Wasnt there considerable medical speculation a few years back that
he sufffered from Tourette's Syndrome, one symptom of which is scatological
language.  Was this simply based on those letters too? Does anyone know?

Deryk Barker
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