Bob Draper wrote:

> The booklet tells us how the poor mite lost his father when he was just a
> couple of months old.  Enter Haydn who arranged for the lad's education
> with music instruction by Hummel (orchestration) and bizzarely Salieri
> (choral writing).

Why bizarrely? Salieri was an excellent choice, possibly the best
available.  And he and Mozart were on good terms as far as anyone can tell
by the time the latter passed away.  Salieri was one of the tiny handful of
people who accompanied Mozart's body to the city gates.  Salieri was also
a superb musician, dwarfed only by the presence of Mozart and Haydn in the
same time at the same place.

Richard, who invites you to visit his music, outdoors and other WWW sites at:
http://infoweb.magi.com/~richard/