Today, January 27th, 2008, is the 252nd birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Or, as I like to call him, my Motzie! I threw an early Mozart birthday party last night, where I got together with my fiancee and a friend for some drinks (which Mozart would have appreciated), delicious food and some Amadeus watchin.
We had a blast, and I got to answer some cursory Mozart questions to our guest and my fiancee. Anywhere from “was Mozart buried in an unmarked grave like a pauper?” to “did Mozart really have a silly laugh like that?” I will get to these questions later. As an added gesture and a general fanaticism towards Mozart, my fiancee and I had another little shindig where we watched Mozart’s opera Die Entfuerung auf dem Seraglio (The Abduction from the Seraglio) and drank some more New Glarus Raspberry alcohol.
I have been throwing Mozart birthday parties since I knew the movie Amadeus existed. When I was 11 years old, Read the rest of this Composition »