European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes saturday August 31, 1991panel tries to unravel mystery of Mozart London apr was Wolfgang amadeus Mozart always childlike did he Gamble did his Noble employers look Down on him no no and yes a panel of experts concluded this week at a conference organized by the Royal musical association one of Many events marking the 200th anniversary of Mozart a death. A Mozart is a big subject and arguments about his life and character will always go on a said Stanley Sadie editor of the new Grove dictionary of music and musicians who was chairman of the conference. Andrew Steptoe professor of psychology at London University Drew laughter when he quoted a present Day viennese Magazine that said Mozart was a a prodigious practitioner of the gentle Art of a the fact that he was musically exceptional should not Lead one to assume that he had unusual experiences in other ways a said Steptoe. A the emerges As More Ordinary than Many fanciful portraits might imply a Steptoe said Mozart was sensitive about his appearance he was about 5 feet tall. As the upper classes in the late 18th Century were 6 to 8 inches taller a it was an Era in which the nobility literally looked Down their noses at the lower orders a Steptoe said. On monday Sadie opened the conference by saying that Milos Formant a Oscar winning 1984 movie amadeus from Peter Shaffer a play had a muddied the Waters for Many recent biographers Are still repeating discredited stories he said. Maynard Solomon a new York City psychologist in his paper the myth of the eternal child noted that Mozart has constantly been portrayed As childlike. Solomon said Mozart a father Leopold promoted that idea fearing that Wolfgang would turn away from his parents and older sister and Cut off their income. Mozart a father opposed or interfered with All his love affairs and his marriage to Constanze Weber when he was 26, Solomon said. A musician who was at a concert rehearsal in october 1790 in Frankfurt a National playhouse re called of Mozart a the restless agile Little Man was continually leaping Over the prompter a Box into the orchestra to Chat in a Friendly Way with the various performers and then climb Back on to the or. Peter j. Davies of Melbourne an australian gastroenterologist theorized that such descriptions of Mozart a often excitable behaviour were clues to a manic depressive disorder. But Steptoe doubted it. A much of the behaviour that Davies considers flamboyant frivolous and hypomania is associated with the exhilaration of creativity or the euphoria that follows Public performances a Steptoe commented. Julia Moore music history lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara said contemporary viennese newspapers wrote of the vast sums Mozart earned but squandered through gambling. A my research proved the opposite. Mozart a life was financially precarious in his last five years. There is no documentary evidence that Mozart Ever gambled a she arrives at to begin general Aoun guarded Villa exile in franc Happy reunion James Elliot of Phoenix welcomes his wife Rosario with a kiss and Lowers upon her return to the Subic Bay naval facilities in the Philippines. About 400 military dependents returned to the naval base thursday after being evacuated to the United states two months ago because of the eruption of the mount Pinatubo Marseille France apr exiled Gen. Michel Aoun Rode into a heavily guarded seafront Villa in a police escorted motorcade Friday a Day after being whisked out of Beirut Lebanon witnesses reported. Journalists and photographers crowding around the Villa Gaby Deslys wit Nassed the rebel Christian general ride into the grounds in the four car motorcade. His family has been in the Villa since thursday evening. The French foreign ministry refused to confirm that Aoun who had been in hiding in the French embassy in Beirut for 10 months had actually arrived in France. The motorcade pulled up to the Villa named for a local artist about 10 30 . It is about 100 Yards from the . Consulate in this Mediterranean City. Journalists and lebanese supporters of Aoun had been crowded near the Villa since thursday evening when the general a wife and three daughters arrived in their own motorcade. It was not known How Long they would remain in Marseille. Lebanese authorities said Aoun was _. I. Travelling with maj. Gen. Edgar Maalouf and Brig. Gen. Issam Abu Jamar French Media reported Friday that a third per son was a bodyguard. Aoun and his aides will be granted political Asylum a terse foreign ministry communique said. It added that French foreign minister Roland Dumas will visit Lebanon soon at the invitation of lebanese authorities. The communique marked the first official word on Aoun by Paris since lebanese officials said thursday that Aoun and two top aides had left Beirut aboard a French Navy vessel for Warnaca Cyprus where a French executive Jet was to Fly them to France. The lebanese Cabinet had Given the men 48 hours to leave the country or forfeit conditions of an amnesty. The Christian officers commanded a predominantly Christian 10,000-Strong army in two wars against syrians 35,000 troops in Lebanon and the 10,000-member lebanese forces group of militia chief Samir Geagea. It has been estimated that 2,000 people were killed and 6,000 wounded during the violence. Quot London apr a Royal air Force Pilot who made history by returning to flying after a heart lung transplant was one of two men killed 1 thursday in a collision Between his Jet and a Light plane Over a Welsh Village. A a the dead airman was identified As Wing cmdr. John Stirling Mardon 40, the father of two. Last april he became the first military Pilot to return to duly after a heart lung transplant. Dyfed Powys police said the two seat Jaguar Jet and a Cessna 152 plane collided Over Farmland near Carno Wales 160 Miles Northwest of London. Blazing wreckage fell on the Fields and burned Many sheep. The Jet was on a training Mission from the Coli shall base in Norfolk England. A second Man was hospitalized after ejecting from the Jaguar. The survivors name was not released. The Cessna crashed near a soccer ground killing the Pilot the Only one aboard. George White 21, who was swimming in a Stream near the crash said a i heard a tremendous Roar and immediately saw the Jet slice into the other plane. The Little plane seemed to disintegrate. A the Jet came Down about half a mile away and i rushed to the scene. 1 found two Raf men there,.one was dead still in his ejector seat which was More than a foot into the ground. A it was horrible. The other one was lying on the ground apparently injured. He kept asking a what a happened a a major Powers accept cambodian peace plan Battaya. Thailand Dpi the powerful five permanent members of the . Security Council accepted the latest compromises Friday on a cambodian peace settlement cambodian Leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk said. Quot it is really historic Quot Sihanouk said after the four cambodian factions met the representatives of the United states the soviet Union China France and Britain. Quot there was no problem Between the two sides a said Sihanouk who had expressed fears the United states and Britain would reject compromises Olvat deviated from the peace plan worked out by the Security Council. The Security Council agreement was needed because it will approve the commitment of the United nations to what is expected to be the largest peace keeping operation the world body has Ever attempted possibly involving up to 20,000 personnel. The Prince who Heads the supreme National Council comprised of the four battling cambodian groups said he hoped the remaining problems could be worked out in informal talks at the . General Assembly in new York. An International conference to sign a comprehensive peace pact could be held in Paris in october he said. Sihanouk said he and . Assistant Secretary of state Richard Solomon agreed that Quot a new Young clean army 100 percent trained by the United nations should be put at the disposal of the new government after elections. Trying to form an army from the remnants of the former factional armies a would be very dangerous a he said
