Salzburg buys a lock of Mozart’s hair

Salzburg buys a lock of Mozart’s hair

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norman lebrecht

December 12, 2019

With a piety worthy of the Vatican, the Salzburg Mozarteum has announced the acquisition of a certified lock of Mozart’s saintly hair, among a collection of Mozart family artefacts.

(So he didn’t go bald, then.)

The collection was bought from descendants of Carl Wilhelm Doell, an engraver of coins and medals in Karlsruhe.

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