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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: Mozart's Grand Tour
Description: Mozart’s grand tour of Western Europe, began on 9th July 1763, when the boy wonder was just 7 years old.Taking in Germany, France, and England, Wolfgang and his sister Maria Anna played for Royal families, leading musicians, and even wowed the crowd in a pub, the Swan and Hoop in Moorgate. In this episode, The Retrospectors speculate as to how much cash Mozart’s father Leopold may have pocketed for himself; reveal how, at the age of eight-and-a-half, Mozart had a younger ‘showbiz age’; and explain why the illness that plagued the family was actu...