The Hague & Versailles: The Musical Game

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Of the 35 years he lived, Mozart spent a third of it traveling; first, it was the tours to show off this child prodigy and then later the professional trips. 

The return home of the Mozart family after their stay in London lasted more than a year. Along the way they stopped at The Hague, where Mozart, about to turn 11, wrote his first musical game Galimathias musicum. Later they were in Versailles, without much success, and finally they returned to Salzburg, where Mozart would write the first of his 27 concertos for piano and orchestra. Before being named Concert Master of the city, he and his sister survived smallpox, the most feared disease in Vienna at the end of the 20th century.

Presented by David Puertas Esteve, musical promoter and writer, the audience will experience how Mozart's stay in The Hague kick-started his musical genius.

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