Paleographers are not needed to interpret this annotation by Mozart...
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... dedicated to a duchess who didn't know how to dance "If you made love the way you dance, poor duke"
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Just out of curiosity.. which sheet music is it?
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it can't be... it's a hoax.... come on?!?!?!?
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I don't think it's a hoax... Just read Mozart's letters. He wrote all sorts of things, even much more scandalous ones than this one, which is actually quite nice in the end...
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Yes, I knew that using 'relatives' in letters was quite vulgar, but I didn't think he would allow himself to do it while teaching.... sure, at the time there was no psychopedagogy... but a minimum of elegance while teaching!!!
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... I didn't know about this research: "the Austrian composer suffered from 'Tourette syndrome'"
http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1992/12/18/colpa-di-un-gene-se-mozart-diceva.html#repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1992/12/18/colpa-di-un-gene-se-mozart-diceva.html?&_suid=1441882763942018928701931427527
To broaden one's culture: "Mozart's correspondence with his cousin Anna Maria and more…"
http://gastonemariotti.com/2009/01/09/lepistolario-di-mozart-con-la-cugina-anna-maria-e-non-solo/
Anyway, Mozart's correspondence is also fundamental for other reasons; here is a very expensive version... but it can also be found for less
http://www.amazon.it/lettere-Lepistolario-completo-famiglia-1755-1791/dp/8865400145/ref=sr_1_1/277-2858993-8825832?ie=UTF8&qid=1441882992&sr=8-1&keywords=mozart+epistolario
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They say that his mother, Anna Maria Pertl, was also affected by it, and Mozart probably inherited the illness from her. The mother often addressed her husband Leopold in public with phrases like "Dry poop," so the domestic environment was certainly not one of the most refined.