Re: [Pen-l] Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and the perils of success

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:41 PM, dsquared@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Yehudi Menuhin and Sarah Chang I grant you, but Mozart didn't handle stardom well - he died a pauper at the age of 35...

That's an "urban myth."  Mozart always had a substantial income, along with substantial debts (like Lincoln he was afflicted with a spendthrift wife).  As a Mason (in the same lodge as Haydn) he could always count on the friendship of many rich bourgeois Viennois.  Why his grave is unmarked remains an absolute mystery--in bad weather, his funeral was nevertheless well attended.

Shane Mage


This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."

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This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it

always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,

kindling in measures and going out in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos

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