Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1782 · Vienna
Compose, if no concert
18:00–21:00 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. 18:00 is one stated possible start; 21:00 is the stated finish.Source timing: Five or six until nine, when concerts allow
“I cannot begin to work before five or six o’clock in the evening, and I am often prevented doing so by some concert; otherwise I write till nine o’clock.”
Verbatim excerpt · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, to his sister Maria Anna (Nannerl)
Line breaks and page markers omitted.
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol. II
Translated by Lady Wallace from Ludwig Nohl’s collection · London, 1865
Letter 188 · Vienna, 13 February 1782 · printed pp. 122–124; routine on p. 123
Passage: Letter 188 · p. 123 · evening schedule
Timing & context
This block is conditional: concerts could take its place. No fixed nightly concert time is claimed.
The letter describes repeated habits rather than one particular day. Concerts sometimes displaced evening composition; their hours are not supplied. The displayed dinner and evening blocks select one documented pattern.
His routine described to Nannerl on 13 February 1782, with variable dinners, concerts and late working hours.
Mozarteum · letter 0663, with the original timing clarified ↗