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'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' was a [[2008]] [[Big Finish]] full-cast audio short story, featuring the [[sixth Doctor]] and Dr. [[Evelyn Smythe]]. | '''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' was a [[2008]] [[Big Finish]] full-cast audio short story, featuring the [[sixth Doctor]] and Dr. [[Evelyn Smythe]]. | ||
It had a notably innovative structure for a [[pseudo-historical]] story. The story began with a difference between how the audience and [[the TARDIS]] crew viewed historical events. It ended with the Doctor unwittingly changing history into a shape the audience recognises. In other words, the Doctor and Evelyn accept an exceptionally long-lived Mozart as being the norm for their time stream, but they ''change'' history | It had a notably innovative structure for a [[pseudo-historical]] story. The story began with a difference between how the audience and [[the TARDIS]] crew viewed historical events. It ended with the Doctor unwittingly changing history into a shape the audience recognises. In other words, the Doctor and Evelyn accept an exceptionally long-lived Mozart as being the norm for their time stream, but they ''change'' history so that Mozart died a young man in [[1791]]. | ||
==Publisher's summary== | ==Publisher's summary== | ||
[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]. Born in [[1756]], a veritable wonderkind - playing music for the crowned heads of [[Europe]] as an infant, composing by the time he was five years old. But it's tempting to wonder whether his amazing longevity has overshadowed his creative genius - would Mozart's music be better respected, maybe, if he'd died as a young man? Would he be a legend of music, rather than of scientific curiosity, if he'd never lived to compose the film score for the remake of ''[[The Italian Job]]''? | [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]. Born in [[1756]], a veritable wonderkind - playing music for the crowned heads of [[Europe]] as an infant, composing by the time he was five years old. But it's tempting to wonder whether his amazing longevity has overshadowed his creative genius - would Mozart's music be better respected, maybe, if he'd died as a young man? Would he be a legend of music, rather than of scientific curiosity, if he'd never lived to compose the film score for the remake of ''[[The Italian Job]]''? | ||