Mozart ‘confessed’ to not liking the flute – he nevertheless wrote for it, because he was commissioned to do so, but in a letter to his father where he wrote about composition and the fact that he usually wrote at night, he said, ‘Moreover, you know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument (the flute) which I cannot bear.’ To take the incredulities for this achievement even further, the five concertos were the earliest pieces of his music to maintain themselves permanently in the world’s concert repertoire. Mozart wrote five violin concertos which, whilst it is a remarkable feat for any classical composer, is deemed all the more incredible when you realise they were all written when he was only nineteen years old in 1775. 382) and says, ‘whenever I play this concerto, I play whatever occurs to me at the moment.’ In the same letter, he also asked his father not to allow anyone else to play the piece as ‘I composed it specially for myself.’ In one of his letters to his father he refers to his second piano concerto (K. Mozart, like many of the great composers, was brilliant at extemporising at the piano he would compose on the spot. The legendary Dutch-American rocker Eddie van Halen named his musician son Wolfgang van Halen after Mozart. It is also paralleled in the works of numerous other composers and artists. It doesn’t happen in every work but its frequency is intriguing. The first movement of his Sonata No.1 in C major contains one hundred bars that are perfectly divided into two parts – 38 bars in the first and 62 in the second a ratio of 0.618 the same as the Golden Section. In sonata form, the movements are ordinarily divided into an exposition followed by a development and a recapitulation. Check out the piano sonatas, or even whole Acts of his operas (Act II of “Cosi fan Tutti” is a great example).It is possible to see that the principle applies here in these scores. No one has adequately answered the frequency of the application of the Golden Section principle in his music but there is reasonable evidence to support the claim. It has been often said that Mozart enjoyed mathematics – there are equations written in the margins of several scores that invite us to consider how Mozart may have used Mathematics in the compositional process. Mozart and Mathematics: The Golden Section.This was particularly directed towards his cousin Maria Anna Thekla, in letters and his music and has to a certain extent given rise to the theory that Mozart suffered from Tourette’s Syndrome. When the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, first saw the Amadeus play in London in 1979, she rebuked the play’s director for the use of four-letter words only to be told that Mozart’s letters frequently displayed his ‘extraordinarily infantile’ sense of humour. Mozart, as with other members of his family, had a strange sense of humour which meant frequent smutty references in their letters. No one really knows why he called it this, but the name stuck and became commonly known by the early 1800’s. The name wasn’t his and was coined by the German violinist, composer and impresario, Johann Peter Salomon, after Mozart’s death. 41, K.551) is called the Jupiter Symphony. This is at least one reason why the whereabouts of his remains are unknown. The definition of a ‘common’ grave was one that could be dug up after ten years, which an aristocrat’s grave could not be. He was poor, but not a pauper, far from the stories that are spun around Mozart’s death. Mozart was buried in a ‘common’ grave – not a pauper’s grave as is often reported.