Standard item of Mozart biography is referring of course to the usual jumble of nonsensical mistakes That s exactly the problem that such incompetent crap is taken as standard these days Spaethling has no knowledge of Austrian 18th century vocabulary Like Anderson he mistranslates Lichterputzer as lamp cleaner so aber ziehe ich nur mein schnupftuch heraus und schmutze 14 November 1777 is being turned into the nonsensical As it is I just pull out my handkerchief and hide a smile LOL because Spaethling obviously thinks schmutzen is a form of schmunzeln Stimmen are mistranslated as vocal parts er geht in die T ne becomes the absurdly wrong He attacks the music And Spaethling s abolute masterpiece of nonsense is his translation of Mozart s sentence O wenn man genereux ist kann man alles haben with Oh there are no limits to those who think imaginatively ROTFL These are the embarrassing ludicrosities you get when you trust somebody who has absolutely no knowledge of the German language and just dabbles in the translation business