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Maria Theresia von Paradis

The attempt to cure Maria Theresia by Franz Anton Mesmer is fictionalised in a short story called "Harmony" by Julian Barnes, in his 2011 collection of short stories, Pulse.

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She traveled to London in late 1784, and performed over the next few months at court, Carlton House (the home of the Prince of Wales), and in the Professional Concerts at Hanover Square, among other places.

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Leopold in a letter from Vienna simply described it to Nannerl as a ‘glorious concerto’ and said it had been written for Maria Theresia von Paradis ‘for Paris.’ His description suggests that neither he nor Nannerl knew it already; if this is so, it must have been a later one than K.453, which seems to have been the newest they had in Salzburg at this date.

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