![]() ![]() He undertook three mini-tours across the year, none of them very long in itself, but when taken as a whole, they would have given Mozart - and to be fair, Leopold - some idea of what lay in store for them. ‘While the artist George Stubbs was painting “mares and foals”, Gluck was premiering his opera, Orpheus and Eurydice in Vienna and Beau Nash “dandied” one final time, before shuffling off his mortal coil.įor Mozart, the year was going to contain an important taste of things to come: 1762 was significant for him because it was when he was introduced to the art of travel. Rousseau wrote his Social Contract, Tzarina Elizabeth of Russia died, to be succeeded first by Peter III and then, upon hisĪssassination, by Catherine II. It wasn't the most momentous 12 months in the world’s calendar. In some ways, 1762 is a tricky year for us to get our heads around. ![]()
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