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Paper, 'Account of a remarkable young musician, Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart' by Daines Barrington

Reference number: L&P/5/156

Date: 29 November 1769

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Subject: Correspondence

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a very remarkable young musician. In a letter from the Honourable Daines Barrington, F. R. S. to Mathew Maty, M.D. Sec. R. S'

Read 15 February 1770

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L&P/5/156
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29 November 1769
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16 pages
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Manuscript

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Daines Barrington

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Daines Barrington, Paper, 'Account of a remarkable young musician, Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart' by Daines Barrington, 29 November 1769, L&P/5/156, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_156/paper-account-of-a-remarkable-young-musician-joannes-chrysotomus-wolfgangus-theophilus-mozart-by-daines-barrington, accessed on 13 June 2025

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