She will never learn the most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time, because from childhood she has designedly cultivated the habit of ignoring the beat.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Early Modern

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Letter to Leopold Mozart (referring to a student)

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October 24, 1777

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Controversial

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