クリスティーズさんのインスタグラム動画 - (クリスティーズInstagram)「Mozart in love: ‘I know of no better solution than to marry Constanze tomorrow morning’. 📜⠀ ⠀ Christie’s Specialist Thomas Venning and Broadcaster Katie Derham showcase an incredibly rare autograph letter written by the composer, in which he appeals to a patroness for advice on pre-empting a romantic scandal.⠀ ⠀ On a late summer’s day in 1782, Mozart received news that he was about to be landed in serious trouble. A maidservant arrived at his rooms and told him his prospective mother-in-law, Frau Cäcilia Weber, was threatening to send the police around to Mozart’s address, because she suspected that Constanze was spending the nights there.⠀ ⠀ Living in sin was an arrestable offence in 18th-century Vienna. Mozart urgently needed advice — so he sat down and wrote a letter to his benefactress, Baroness Martha Elisabeth von Waldstätten.⠀ ⠀ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Autograph letter to Baroness Von Waldstätten (1782). Estimate: £300,000 – £500,000.⠀ ⠀ 🗓 The Exceptional Sale: 6 July, 2023. Live Auction: London.⠀ ⠀ #Mozart #ClassicWeek」7月3日 5時46分