Wolfgang Mozart / Picture Misattribution
The above picture is one of the most commonly reproduced portraits of the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is misattributed. The boy is actually Count Karl Firmian who was a childhood friend of Mozart.
Also note the keyboard’s odd assortment of black keys.
The above picture is one of the most commonly reproduced portraits of the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is misattributed. The boy is actually Count Karl Firmian who was a childhood friend of Mozart.
Also note the keyboard’s odd assortment of black keys.
Information Credit:
Copyright © 2002 Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853
Oil Painting by Thaddäus Helbling, ca. 1767. Original owned by the Mozarteum, Salzburg
Resource Link:
Count Karl Firmian. Mozart and the Keyboard of His Time. Accessed January 9, 2010.
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