Walter Meyer ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Deryk Barker wrote:
>
>>Indeed.  Mozart was happy to remain a (highly paid) servant his whole life.
>
>I know he sought appointment to some sort of court position
>(Kapellmeister?) when he left Salzburg for Vienna, but, as the
>circumstances of his departure from Salzburg indicate, servitude was not
>really Mozart's dish of tea.

I've already been taken to task privately by Nick P over this.

I should make myself clearer:  I don't believe Mozart would (subjunctive -
OK NIck?) have had any problem being a paid servant per se.  The exact
circumstances would undoubtedly make a difference, but I can see Mozart
being as happy as Haydn given a music-loving employer like Paul and Nikolas
Esterhazy.

Perhaps at its simplest I'm saying that my impression is that Mozart (like
most of his contemporaries) believed in the existing class system, whereas
Beethoven's ideas were more "modern".

Deryk Barker
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