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died about 1973, 1970-something.
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But we can get inside of Mozart's head more intensely
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and we know more about him than we can about Picasso
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because Mozart left us a ton of letters.
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I just grabbed something
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that was on my bookshelf in my office here,
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here--volume two of a five-volume set of letters by Mozart,
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so he was always writing letters to, principally, his father,
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and it's on the basis of this kind of thing
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that we get a sense of who Mozart was.
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The portrayal of Mozart in "Amadeus,"
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as I say, is just absolutely wrong.