Real Life
For personal correspondence shows that the degree of poverty in the family myths markedly exaggerated. However extravagant lifestyle quickly ate all the money. Somehow, earning a fabulous sum for his statement, Mozart spent her two weeks. Dude, to which genius came to borrow money, he asked: "You have no castle, no stables or expensive mistresses, no piles of children ... Where are you going to do with the money?" And Mozart replied: "But I have a wife, Constance, she is - my castle, my herd of thoroughbred horses, my lover and my pile of children ..." Children in the family were born six, but four of whom died in infancy. Rhode Mozart left off on the children of Carl Thomas and Franz Xaver, who never got the offspring. Mozart's Marriage, which he entered without permission from his father, was happy. Wolfgang and Constance were similar, both distinguished and joyful attitude to life. There is a legend that one day in winter to see him as a guest and found them dancing: Mozart tried to warm himself, having no money for firewood ... However, even when in Vienna capricious public stopped listening to Mozart's operas and his works "out of fashion", the composer continued to receive good fees from other European countries, as well as a courtier salary.
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