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TIL Mozart wrote a Piano Sonata for Rose Cannabich, his 15 year old pupil. Mozart described it as a sort of a portrait of "a very beautiful well-behaved girl, very sensible and demure for her age, serious, speaking little but, when she does, with grace and friendliness"

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