![]() ![]() Innately restless (a chip off the old block there), Franz Xaver then moved to a Polish patron, Count Janiszewski, before settling in Lemberg (present-day Lviv) as a freelance musician. Three years later he escaped from the inevitable scrutiny of the Viennese to the provincial obscurity of Galicia, where he initially served as music teacher to Count Viktor Baworowski. In 1805, aged fourteen, he gave his public debut in Emanuel Schikaneder’s Theater auf der Wieden. Born just four months before Wolfgang’s death, Franz Xaver showed precocious talent as a pianist, and as a boy was taught by, inter alia, Salieri (ironically, given the baseless posthumous rumours that grew up around the Italian) and Hummel, who as a Wunderkind had once been a pupil of Wolfgang’s. Court Kapellmeister Antonio Salieri prophesied, optimistically as it turned out, that he would make a career ‘not inferior to that of his celebrated father’. Constanze Mozart expected great things from her younger surviving son, Franz Xaver Wolfgang. ![]()
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