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Mozart

Turning a financial opportunity

1789
Berlin, Germany

Friedrich Wilhelm II offered him the post of chief Kapellmeister in Berlin, on a salary that could almost certainly have put an end to his financial issues. The response Mozart gave was to turn it down. He wrote to a friend, saying: "I do like Vienna… the Emperor is good to me and I’m not particularly bothered about money".


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