This letter, written by Austrian composer Wolfgang Mozart in summer 1782 about his love life, could fetch up to $600,000 at an auction
LONDON, June 14 - A letter showing Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a "complete panic" over his love life is set to go up for auction at Christie's in London next month.
"She's about to send in the police to retrieve his fiancee with obviously terrible consequences for his reputation," said Christie's Head of Books and Manuscripts, Thomas Venning. Mozart wrote a lot of letters during his life, but Venning said it was rare to see one of them at auction, and rare to get this "degree of insight... into his character... and feelings at a pretty crucial moment in his life."
"He comes from a very strict Catholic background. So the fact that he's already cohabiting with Constanze, that they're already sleeping together, he's sort of throwing caution to the wind," Venning said. "That kind of liberated nature of the way he's behaving" in both his private and professional life Venning describes as "refreshing".
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