Talk:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mozart was an "Austrian" composer. All reference books will describe him as such. "Austria" here is being used as a geographical term rather than a political one. The distinction between "Austrian" and "German" is made in all reference books as a geographical term for the period before Napoleon upset things. The Mozart family is described in Groves as an "Austrian family with a German background".(In any case we can't have "an composer")Hikitsurisan 21:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please look at the discussion about "Mozart" in the English Wikipedia (46 - "Nationality") or - if you can read the language - the disussion in the German Wikipedia. "Austrian" would be ahistoric.