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Portrait of a decomposing composer
Mozart was a very tired-looking 34-year-old, if this newly discovered portrait is any indication. I guess being a genius takes it out of you.
In the (paraphrased) immortal words of Tom Lehrer, though, “It’s a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he’d been dead for 10 years…”
UPDATE: Oops! Link was bad before, but now it’s fixed.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2005/01/portrait-of-a-decomposing-composer/
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Sorry about that! The link’s fixed now.
Wrong link, Ed! Can you find it again? I’d really love to see this.
Ah… Ed, I don’t get it. What does NASA have to do with Mozart?