A biography for Wolfgang Hildesheimerhasn’t been written yet.
“I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.”
“When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.”
“The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.”