>>>can anyone tell me whether the quotation "Mozart was a bad composer who >>died >>>too late rather than too early" comes from? >>>I don't want to broadcast it if it's not Gould!!! > >http://gigue.peabody.jhu.edu/~juragaga/Gould.htm Note that that one on the web is a reverse translation from German back into English, and from 1979 (three years after the one published in the _Reader_).