In the last decades, psychiatrists ascribed diverse psychiatric disorders to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, among them the Tourette syndrome. The latter primarily based on fancy erotic letters Mozart wrote to his cousin, containing excessive wordplays plus coprolalia, echolalia, or palilalia, often associated with this syndrome. To this effect, Moller 1 in his review critically scrutinizes Mozart's reported personality traits, time-typical fashion of self-expression (namely his hyperactivity), his correspondence with other persons, expressive and intentional aspects plus biography and medical history. As to language, Moller clarifies that vulgar speech was not only more common in the baroque than nowadays but also served the middle class as distinction from the stilted courtly language.
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