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66<br />
There must be some mistake. Music fans pursue Mozart in Vienna,<br />
or they seek him in Salzburg – but surely not in Berlin!<br />
Berlin’s well-kept<br />
mozart<br />
secret<br />
a visit to the Mozart manuscript collection in the Berlin state library<br />
By C. De Reese, IllustRatIons: staatsBIBlIothek zu BeRlIn - PReussIsCheR kultuRBesItz<br />
His visit to the city and the Prussian court in April 1788 was a disappointment –<br />
there were no vacant posts for court musicians, merely a couple of commissions<br />
for string quartets, to include particularly beautiful cello parts, so that Friedrich<br />
Wilhelm II could show off his prowess … No-one would claim that this brief visit<br />
qualifies Berlin as a ‘Mozart City’. Very few traces of his stay in Berlin remain.<br />
Yet the city centre harbours a treasure which turns the Viennese green with envy<br />
and which the citizens of Salzburg would love to get their hands on.<br />
It is kept in a vault in the Berlin State Library, a large historical building<br />
on the well-known street Unter den Linden.<br />
MozaRt MozaRt 67
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