Culture Shock! Austria - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

(Steven Felgate) #1

‘I prefer German opera even though it means
more trouble for me. Every nation has its own opera...
Is not German as singable as French and English?
Is it not more so than Russian? Very well then!
I am now writing a German opera for myself.’
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer,
in a letter to his father in 1783


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