To the owner, this was worse than not doing it at all! And a real embarrassment to any company that came. So a servant was called clumsy or inept by their employer. Today the term means anyone (floors or not) who irritates others by a clumsy word or action.
In the evening Mozart took a turn for the worse, and his doctor, Thomas Closset, was summoned from the theater but sent word that he would come once the show was over. When he arrived, he ordered cold compresses applied to Mozartâs head, which witnesses said caused the patient to shudder.
The Archbishop Colloredo of Salzburg, who mistreated Mozart while he was his employee (or servant, as the man seemed to think he was), was certainly not counted among his friends. He also knew and didn't care for composer Muzio Clementi. Although he never met him, he absolutely despised Voltaire.