Alternative Versions of Letter 178
People in Letter 178
Lugiati, PietroMozart, Leopold (Johann Georg)Mozart, Maria AnnaMozart, Maria Anna Walpurga Ignatia (Nannerl)Mozart, Wolfgang AmadeusNot identified
Places in Letter 178
Music by Mozart in Letter 178
178. PIETRO LUGIATI TO MARIA ANNA MOZART IN SALZBURG
[Verona, 22 April 1770]
Since the beginning of this year, this City of ours has admired in the most highly prized Person of Sgr Amadeo Volfango Mozart, Your Son, a prodigy, it may be said, of nature in Music, inasmuch as Art could not yet have performed her Office if she had not taken account of his tender age. I have certainly been among his admirers, even though, however much pleasure Music may invariably have afforded me and however much I may have heard on my travels, I cannot hope to be an infallible judge of it; but I am certainly not mistaken in the case of so rare and prodigious a Youth, and I have conceived such a regard for him that I have had him painted from life


Verona 22 April 1770
Your Most Devoted and Humble Servant
Pietro Lugiati
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