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Mozart, The Music, The Myth, The Legend, w/ Jan Swafford

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

CHAPTER

Leopold Is Not Unusual. He's a Stage Dad.

Leopold felt entitled to control wolfgang long after he was a child. The parents impose on the kids, and the parents have a lot of trouble letting go. Leopold is different in having been so brilliant at the beginning and screwing up so much later.

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Speaker 1
And, ah, if you've ever seen their apartment that they moved into after the tours, andin salzburg, it was a really nice, big placei
Speaker 2
i think what i was struck by, what i said, in terms of shockingness, is in his sort of this feeling that he felt entitled to control wolfgang long after he was a child. And that, you know, he would say that your behaviour is is, you know, it's a reflection on me and
Speaker 1
my position and and you're killing me, yo. Exactly. Exactly. These are from the standard play book, though. One of the things that's in the background of all my books actually say from brahmson his had a long talk with dorothy delay, the famous juliard violin teacher. And it was, i had a gig to interview me doriat, aged 12, making her debe with the boston symphony. And what what delay was talking about with prodigies, cause she'd dealt with a lot of them. And what she told me is informed and formed my books from then on. And it applies to all kinds of things, and applies to sports people, you know, th young limp prodigies and that kind of thing. She said, it's the parents idea. It's not the kid's idea. And there's something the parents impose on the kids, and the parents have a lot of trouble letting go. And the kid grows up and they knw how to play the fiddle or the piano, but they don't know how to live. And because the parents have done t hathave controlled them, in a way. I mean, clara 's human. Every minute of every day of her life growing up was controlled by her father, who had decided before she was born, hi, whatever its kid was, was going to be one of the great pianusts. Am. So in a way, leopold is not unusual. He's a stage dad, and you see that over and over. I mean, venus williams aer sisder imen with dad. You see this everywherend, it is very familiar. Leopold is different in having been so brilliant at the beginning and screwing up so much later.

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