Mar 23, 2017

It is difficult to guard against madness

"I cannot be sure that this child will not turn my head if I go on hearing him often; he makes me realize that it is difficult to guard against madness on seeing prodigies. I am no longer surprised that Saint Paul should have lost his head after his strange vision."

- Baron Friedrich Melchior von Grimm on the six-year old Mozart, quoted in The Lives of the Great Composers, pg. 95.

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