Franz Mesmer summers he lived on a splendid estate and became a patron of the arts. In 1768, when court intrigue prevented the performance of "La finta semplice" (K. 51), for which the twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed 500 pages of music, Mesmer is said to have arranged a performance in his garden of Mozart's "Bastien und Bastienne" (K. 50), a one-act opera, though Mozart's biographer Nissen found no proof that this performance actually took place. Mozart later immortalized his former patron by including a comedic reference to Mesmer in his opera "Così fan tutte". In 1774, Mesmer produced an "artificial
Alfred Reynolds (composer) the comic book by of that name) and a score for The Swiss Family Robinson. In 1947, he wrote music for a Stratford-upon-Avon adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". A two-act comic opera, "The Limpet in the Castle", was premiered in 1958 at Wombwell, Yorkshire. Much of his theatre music has been played in the concert hall. Reynolds died aged 84 at Bognor Regis on 18 October 1969. Philip L. Scowcroft, "Theatre Conductor and Composer: Alfred Reynolds (1884-1969)" Alfred Reynolds (composer) Alfred Reynolds (1884–1969) was a composer of light music for the theatre. He was born in