Today is Mozart's birthday. Happy birthday, old fellow. Here's an interesting piece of trivia: his baptismal name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus (Gottlieb) Mozart. (Nota Bene: if you're wondering where the title of the 1984 Milos Forman film came from, it's simple: "Amadeus" is the Latinized form of the Greek name "Theophilus,"--"Gottlieb," in German--which means, incidentally, "lover of God." So the great composer was partly named after the recipient of Luke's Gospel and its sequel.)
Friday, January 27, 2006
Happy Birthday to . . . Whom?
Today is Mozart's birthday. Happy birthday, old fellow. Here's an interesting piece of trivia: his baptismal name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus (Gottlieb) Mozart. (Nota Bene: if you're wondering where the title of the 1984 Milos Forman film came from, it's simple: "Amadeus" is the Latinized form of the Greek name "Theophilus,"--"Gottlieb," in German--which means, incidentally, "lover of God." So the great composer was partly named after the recipient of Luke's Gospel and its sequel.)
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