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Amadeus...

6/6/2012

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Someone whom I prefer to not mention used to say: “Repeat a lie one thousand times and it becomes truth”
It might sound a bit categorical, but it’s the basic principle of propaganda.
Applying this principle in a  less general dimension, we might realize that many  facts we consider  out of all possible discussions are based on simple repetition of them, but it doesn’t proof they are true and in many cases they are not.
Let’s consider only one example.
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Mozart’s name.
Nearly everyone knows more or less who was Mozart and thinks to know his full name.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
In 1948 Milos Forman directed a quite beautiful movie inspired to Mozart’s life, called “ Amadeus”. 
So what’s wrong with that?
Nothing. 
The matter is that Mozart was not called Amadeus at all.
His full name was
Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.

Well, just to be fussy, we would add that Theophilus is a name of Greek origin which means lover of God( by the way Theophilus was the name of Mozart’s godfather, so this explain why it was included in the list of  the child’s names) and we could get further  saying that Amadeus is the Latin translation of the name Theophilus, but on the registry of the cathedral in Salzburg where he was baptized he was officially registered as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, so this is what it would be written on Mozart’s passport nowadays, if he had one.

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At that time, actually, people used multiple language versions of their name if they wanted.
When he was in Italy (Mozart could speak Italian perfectly) he 
liked to be called Wolfango Amedeo, later he chose the whimsical   “Amadé” to add capriciously to his first name Wolfgang in his official document, included his wedding contract.
In many letters he had written that he cannot stand the name Amadeus and used it only for jokes.

It’s ironically bitter that, after his death, he has started being known only under this name…Wolfgang Amadeus

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1 Comment
Barry
7/6/2012 07:50:30 am

I never knew this. You have an amazing abiliity to discover these facts and then explain them in a fascinating manner. Bravo!

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