How popular was Mozart in France before WWII and after it?
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Mozart played mainly at the court of Queen Maria Theresa of Austria. But she had a daughter, Marie Antoinette, who was Queen of France (and who hosted Mozart on a tour).
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/music/bios/mozart/
It's unlikely that Mozart was "never" popular in France before World War II. What MAY have been true is that Mozart, who had his ups and downs, even after his death, was at a "low ebb" in France in 1940, and the occupation "revived" his popularity. While I don't know this for a fact, it's quite plausible that Mozart would have been unpopular in "Republican," anti-German France, basically between 1871-1940.
If Paxton was (basically) right about the latter, the 1940s revival of interest in Mozart would be a case of "Stockholm syndrome," defeated French identifying with Nazi conquerors.
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There are enough mentionings of Mozart e.g. in the Wikipedia article on Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), another child prodigy, classical music composer, and pianist who died young, to convince me that Mozart was studied and taken seriously for one by the French musical elite in the (early) 19th century, i.e. well before WW II.
Seven-year-old "little Chopin" (Szopenek) began giving public concerts [in Poland at the time] that soon prompted comparisons with child prodigies Mozart and Beethoven
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It was quickly decided that Mozart's Requiem would be sung [at Chopin's funeral]. This was said to have been Chopin's own wish ...
Chopin's is generally a very interesting 19th-century Polish-French biography. For full disclosure: his Op. 10, No. 3 is one of the most beautiful pieces for piano I know of; and BTW (re Stockholm syndrome), strictly speaking Mozart was not a German, but an Austrian composer. (But then who considers Chopin a French and who a Polish composer? IMO it does matters relatively little compared to the absolute quality of the music of both Chopin and Mozart :)
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