But the work, supposedly given to the Loge's impresario for copying, was set aside by the latter and subsequently lost. He claimed to have finished a "sinfonie concertante in the current popular style" for solo flute, oboe, bassoon, and horn, with an orchestra of two oboes, two horns, and strings. He was able, however, to contact a quartet of visiting wind players from Mannheim, and on May 1 wrote to his "très cher Pére" that they asked him for a new piece to be performed at the Concert Spirituel in the Loge Olympique, Paris' most distinguished orchestral series. When mother and son finally did reach Paris on March 23, 1778, he found the city that had hailed him as a prodigy 15 years earlier was now unhospitable - indeed, inimical. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mozart's coming-of-age journey to Paris in 1777-1779 - albeit with his mother as chaperone - was not only circuitous but leisurely.
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