Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Vincent Novello , MCC 's father, was a music teacher, choirmaster, composer, and music publisher, who played the organ for the Portuguese Embassy Chapel at South Street, Grosvenor Square, London, for twenty-six years. There...

As a student she sang in the Oxford Bach Choir . Mozart was then unfashionable, and Kennedy boldly defended him against the prejudice of the choir's director.

Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach , who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms , Goethe ...