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In August 1777, after five increasingly frustrating years as a violinist in the court orchestra of Archbishop von Colloredo, ruler of the Principality of Salzburg, Mozart was dismissed. Accompanied by his mother he set off in search of a post more suited to his talents and on 30th October arrived in Mannheim. It soon became obvious that there was no suitable employment to be found there but it took a stern letter from his father, who had stayed behind in Salzburg, to persuade him to move on and try his luck in Paris. Mozart’s reluctance to leave Mannheim was more personal than musical; he had fallen in love with17-year-old Aloisia Weber.
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