The Netherlands

Mozart and his family stayed in the Netherlands from September 1765 to April 1766. There he would have been inspired by the art treasures and the beauty of the landscape. In the Hague, first Nannerl then Wolfgang fell severely ill from typhus. At the request of Princess Caroline von Nassau Weilburg both of them were entrusted to the court physician and successfully cured. Concerts were presented in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Haarlem and The Hague, and the family also stayed over in Moerdijk and Rotterdam. No less than twelve musical works were composed in this period, including two symphonies, K. 22 and K. 45a, and the Galimathias Musicum, K. 32.

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