Note 41 — Chapter III · THE VIENNESE CLASSICS: HAYDN AND MOZART

Johann Schobert especially caught the boy’s fancy, though both his father and Baron Grimm, their most influential friend in Paris, depreciated his merits and tried to picture him as a small, jealous person. T. de Wyzewa and G. de St. Foix, in their study Un maître inconnu de Mozart (Zeitschrift Int. Musik-Ges., Nov., 1908), and in their partially completed biography of Mozart, have clearly shown the powerful influence of the Paris master on the youthful composer.