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1770: A Day Trip Around the Bay of Naples

Cliff Eisen 17 February 2022

When Mozart and his father visited Naples in June 1770, Leopold wrote to his wife: ‘On Monday and Tuesday etc. we’re going to take a closer look at Vesuvius, Pompeii and

1764-1765: The Mozarts’ Engravings from London

Cliff Eisen 9 February 2022

to see the footnotes, click on the footnote number; to return to the text, hit back on your browser On 28 June 1764, during the family’s stay in London, Leopold

1763: Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle, ‘Leopold Mozart and his Two Children’

Cliff Eisen 7 February 2022

Portrait executed at Paris, fall-winter 1763-1764; copies: Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Inv. Nr. D. 4496; York, Castle Howard; privately owned. The earliest reference to Carmontelle’s portrait of Leopold Mozart and his