27 AUGUST 1965, Page 11

Mozart and Bach

SIR,—To repeat myself, I never asserted or implied that Mozart met Frederick the Great or that he learned anything from Frederick the Great. I had thought of putting in a sentence to the effect that W. A. Mozart (which, by the way, is not his full name) did not need and did not act on the advice of Frederick the Great. As 1 said, my whole object was to find something creditable about Frederick the Great, not about Mozart. From my point of view, this correspondence must now cease.

Peter/souse, Cambridge

DENIS BROGAN