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Wienna became a center for musical backbiting in which Mozart took part with entusiasm. He never forgot, that his opera, written when he was a child - La finta semplice - The Pretended Simpleton - had been rejected by older collegues. His new opera - Don Giovanni - therefore had its premiere in Prague, where it was a great succes as it eventually was in Wienna too - later.
Carl Vendler
Wienna became a center for musical backbiting in which Mozart took part with entusiasm. He never forgot, that his opera, written when he was a child - La finta semplice - The Pretended Simpleton - had been rejected by older collegues. His new opera - Don Giovanni - therefore had its premiere in Prague, where it was a great succes as it eventually was in Wienna too - later.
Carl Vendler
