Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune Quotes

“He had essentially created the new genre of string trio in 1788 with the Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563.”
― Christoph Wolff, Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791

“6 Yet, history took a different course. Mozart died that December and the adjunct post fell to Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, court organist in Vienna, distinguished composer, theorist, and Mozart’s senior by twenty years.7 A little over a year later, the Viennese magistrate also honored the commitment previously made to Mozart and, after Hofmann’s death in March 1793, Albrechtsberger became kapellmeister of the cathedral and retained that office until the end of his life in 1809.”
― Christoph Wolff, Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791