2-720-416 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Played before the Court at Versailles', (1907). The seven-year-old Mozart and his family are guests at the French court during Christmas and New Year 1763-1764: 'They stayed five months in Paris, played before the Court at Versailles, and excited astonishment and enthusiasm both there and wherever else they performed. The mother accompanied them on this long expedition, and on New Year's Day the family were conducted to the royal supper-room, where the Queen drew Wolfgang to her side, fed him with sweetmeats, and conversed with him in German.' An episode from the life of Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). From "Story-Lives of Great Musicians", by F.J. Rowbotham. [Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd, London, 1907]