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Figaro
Mozart finds a libretto he wants to set to music. But it's been banned as subversive
Episode six. Fame.
In 1784, at 28 years old, Mozart was at the height of his fame, wrote no fewer than six piano concertos, and felt himself to be at his peak.
Then he found a libretto he liked: The Marriage of Figaro. But it had been banned because of its subversive political overtones...
Written and presented by Dr Stanley Sadie.
