Cultural Cocktail Hour
Mozart and the Barber Shop Chase
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“Why Can’t you Sit Still?
“Because I’m Mozart”
In his delightful tome, The Book of Musical Anecdotes, Norman Lebrecht reveals that the perpetually inspired Mozart led his Barber on a hair-cutting chase:
“Every moment an idea would occur to him…he would run to the clavier, the barber after him, hair-ribbon in hand.”
Luckily for Mozart, the barber had a steady hand.