

It is, however, extremely doubtful as to whether she has any talent for composition, especially as regards invention or ideas.” She has a great deal of talent, even genius, and in particular a marvelous memory so that she can play all her pieces, actually about 200, by heart.

“I think I told you in my last letter,” wrote Mozart, “that the Duc de Guines plays the flute extremely well, and that his daughter is my pupil in composition. Mozart was in Paris, 22 years old, and had this to say to his father back in Salzburg: Today we have a letter to read, written by Mozart in the middle of May in the year 1778.
